Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Donnelly

#21,367 most common boys' name of all time · #56,298 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1922–1986

Rank among boys
#21,367
Rank overall
#56,298 of 105,966
First appeared
1922
Years on the list
7 of 146
All-time
38
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1922 #3,854
Best rank
#3,854 1922
Girls Boys peak 7/yr
194019601980

Donnelly first appears in 1922. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1986 — 5 5 #7,018
1975 — 5 5 #5,736
1950 — 5 5 #4,024
1949 — 5 5 #4,060
1934 — 5 5 #4,112
1926 — 6 6 #4,146
1922 — 7 7 #3,854