Donahue
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Irish Gaelic: a warrior dressed in dark
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdɑnəˌhju/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Donahue is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 9.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 11K
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 5.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 477 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Irish Gaelic: a warrior dressed in dark.
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Donahue counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Donahue | 8 |
| US United States | #897 | 31,563 | 1 in 11K | 32K | Donahue | 477 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | listed | Donahue | 91 |
| KP North Korea | #783 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Donahue | 1 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Donahue | 11 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Donahue | 9 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Phil Donahueb. 1935USAmerican media personality, writer and film producer (1935–2024)
- Troy Donahueb. 1936USAmerican actor (1936-2001)
- Elinor Donahueb. 1937USactress
- Ann Donahueb. 1955USTV writer
- Megan Donahueb. 1962USAmerican astrophysicist and astronomer
- Mitzi Kaptureb. 1962USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Christopher T. Donahueb. 1969USAmerican Army general
- Poppy Montgomeryb. 1972AUnot in their usual nameAustralian actress (born 1972)
- Jocelin Donahueb. 1981USAmerican actress
- Claire Donahueb. 1989USAmerican swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 32K | #1,112 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 31K | #1,026 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 30K | #1,152 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Donahue mean, and where does it come from?
- Irish Gaelic: a warrior dressed in dark. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Donahue?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdɑnəˌhju/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Donahue have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 140 thousand people named Donahue in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled donahue.
- How common is the name Donahue?
- In the United States, the national register counted 31,563 people named Donahue in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Donahue compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Donahue is the 783rd most common surname of 2,439 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/donahueThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Donahue” — the 783rd most common surname in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.