Donalda
Donalda is a village in central Alberta, Canada that is east of Ponoka. It was founded in 1911 and takes its name from Donalda Crossway, a niece of Sir Donald Mann, a Canadian Northern Railway official. It is home to the "World's Largest Oil Lamp", standing at 12.8 metres (42 ft) high, the structure is one of the Giants of the Prairies.
- Scottish
Meaning & Origin of Donalda
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Donalda is a village in central Alberta, Canada that is east of Ponoka. It was founded in 1911 and takes its name from Donalda Crossway, a niece of Sir Donald Mann, a Canadian Northern Railway official. It is home to the "World's Largest Oil Lamp", standing at 12.8 metres (42 ft) high, the structure is one of the Giants of the Prairies.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Scottish
The Story of Donalda
American parents first put Donalda on the record books as a baby girl name in 1898, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1929, when 17 Donaldas were born — ranking #2,011 that year. Donalda last appeared in the published SSA data in 1976, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 623 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1890s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Donalda
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Donalda. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Donaldina
- Donella
Notable people named Donalda
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- Cody Cassidy , steer wrestler
- Robert E. Collin , electrical engineering professor
- Tricia Helfer , actor and model, best known for playing Number Six in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica miniseries and television series
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About the name Donalda
Donalda is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1898 and has accumulated 623 births in the dataset. Donalda's peak popularity came in 1929 when it ranked #2,011. Use the chart and map above to compare Donalda's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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