O'Donnel
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
O'Donnel is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Polish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Variant of O'Donnell.
- USUnited States1 in 620K◐
- IEIreland1 in 209K
- BBBarbados1 in 235K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈762 ◐
- Sources
- 85 ●
- 1 in 209K ◐
across 10 countries
5.2K records
Official registry-verified
Ireland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Odonnel in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 7 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Variant of O'Donnell.
Sources 1
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈536 | 4.5K rec. | 1 in 620K | — | Odonnel | 85 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈94 | 284 rec. | 1 in 702K | — | Odonnel | 14 |
| CA Canada | ≈57 | 104 rec. | 1 in 657K | — | Odonnel | 4 |
| AU Australia | ≈28 | 77 rec. | 1 in 913K | — | Odonnel | 13 |
| IE Ireland | ≈25 | 44 rec. | 1 in 209K | — | Odonnel | 6 |
| DE Germany | ≈7 | 10 rec. | 1 in 11M | — | Odonnel | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈7 | 8 rec. | 1 in 673K | — | Odonnel | 2 |
| BE Belgium | ≈4 | 12 rec. | 1 in 3.2M | — | Odonnel | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈3 | 6 rec. | 1 in 917K | — | Odonnel | 1 |
| BB Barbados | ≈1 | 5 rec. | 1 in 235K | — | Odonnel | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | — | — | 2 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Roughly 536 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 620K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English44893%
- Polish102%
- Spanish102%
- French61%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 448 | 93% |
| Polish | 10 | 2% |
| Spanish | 10 | 2% |
| French | 6 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #373,928 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #146 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-09-03 data build · 5 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name O'Donnel?
- We estimate roughly 762 people bear O'Donnel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does O'Donnel have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 536 people bear O'Donnel in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled odonnel.
- Where is O'Donnel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, O'Donnel is densest in Ireland — about 1 in 209 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name O'Donnel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variant of O'Donnell.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “O'Donnel”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.