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The first name 
Donelda

Donelda is a first name for girls.

Donelda – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Donelda has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Donelda. That means that a girl named Donelda is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Donelda.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Donelda

Donelda -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Donelda. Girls named Donelda have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,644 Donelda ranked higher than ever in 1936. By comparison, there have been 88 years in which the first name Donelda has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Donelda only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Donelda was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Donelda -
at home in Michigan and Ohio

If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Donelda, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in Michigan and Ohio. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Donelda living in one state or another (if your name is Donelda and you live outside of Michigan and Ohio, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 74,020 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Donelda. So, if your name is Donelda it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Donelda already makes you special.

Donelda has 7 letters 
and begins with a D

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.

With seven letters, the name Donelda has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.

Other names with 
D, o, n, e, l, d and a

If you take all the letters in the name Donelda – D, o, n, e, l, d and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Delonda or Delando.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Donelda

If your name is Donelda and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Donelda

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Donelda, you can simply say:

Dinosaur

Orange

Nut

Elephant

Lion

Dinosaur

Apple

This is how the name Donelda is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Donelda in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Donelda

Donelda

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Donelda

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Donelda is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

D
O
N
E
L
D
A

Have you ever waved the name Donelda

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

D
O
N
E
L
D
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Donelda sounds like this: