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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Origin: Korean

Meaning

Don is a masculine given name in the Irish language, as well as a short form of two masculine given names in the English language. The Irish name is derived from the Irish donn; the name can either mean "brown", or "chief", "noble". The Irish name is a variant spelling of Donn.

From Wikipedia

Don first appears in the data in 1957 and has been recorded in 56 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 1993 with 43 babies (rank #348 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Don

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Don yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

1,084
Total babies (all years)
56
Years in the data
43
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19571#851
19581#892
19601#937
19614#720
19622#853
19632#862
19654#743
19669#589
19676#679
19686#700
19694#835
197011#600
197113#554
197217#474
197310#601
197421#425
197513#524
197617#459
19779#623
197820#426
197911#589
198014#553
198116#509
198213#566
198315#516
198413#575
198517#515
198619#509
198738#354
198829#423
198928#452
199024#499
199122#527
199235#403
199343#348
199436#394
199531#438
199643#365
199735#400
199832#430
199934#417
200034#418
200133#431
200235#408
200329#452
200423#500
200519#547
200618#559
200728#423
200817#551
200921#476
201021#480
201130#378
201213#599
201321#449
201423#413