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Donalee
How to Pronounce Donalee
Pronounced DON-uh-lee /ˈdɒn.ə.liː/Medium
Meaning: Donalee is a blend joining Dona - a form of Donna, from the Italian for lady - with Lee, the popular mid-century name-ending drawn from an English surname meaning meadow or clearing. It reads as a warm, homemade compound name of its era.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Donalee is a blended name of the mid twentieth century, joining Dona (from Donna, Italian for lady) to the widely used suffix Lee. American parents of the era loved building such two-part names, and Donalee is a tidy example, pairing a soft lead with a bright close. It never spread far beyond its moment.
Donalee was never common in the United States, reaching only about twenty girls a year around its peak in 1959 before fading with the fashion that made it. A woman named Donalee then is in her sixties today.
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What does the name Donalee mean?
It is a blend of Dona, from Donna meaning lady, and the suffix Lee, from an English surname for a meadow.
How do you pronounce Donalee?
It is said DON-uh-lee /ˈdɒn.ə.liː/, three syllables with the stress on the first.
Is Donalee a boy or girl name?
Donalee is used here as a girl's name.
How popular is Donalee?
It has always been rare in the United States, given to only about twenty girls a year at its peak in the late nineteen-fifties.