Naming Your Kid ‘Donald’ Has Never Been So Unpopular

President Donald Trump wants his name on most anything: money, buildings, airports, warships, even the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration.

But one item is increasingly out of reach: newborns.

In 2025, the baby name “Donald” hit its lowest point of popularity in U.S. history, according to data maintained by the Social Security Administration and reviewed by NOTUS.

The federal agency received fewer than 400 Social Security card applications for baby Donalds last year, making “Donald” the nation’s 690th most popular baby name amid Trump’s return to the White House for a second term.

“Donald” peaked in popularity in 1934, when more than 30,400 American babies received the name, and remained within the top 100 through 1990.

But even as Trump’s notoriety in business, entertainment and politics grew, the baby name “Donald” continued to decline, Social Security Administration data indicates.

In 2004, when the first season of Trump’s hit television show “The Apprentice” premiered, “Donald” had fallen to No. 263. In 2013, the year World Wrestling Entertainment inducted Trump into its Hall of Fame, “Donald” sat at No. 415.

And in 2016, when Trump won his first presidential term, “Donald” sank to No. 489.

“Donald” did tick up a few notches in 2017, Trump’s first year in office, but continued its nearly unabated free fall for the next eight years, losing more than 200 popularity places by 2025.

Even in Florida, Trump’s new home state and a Republican stronghold, parents minted just 21 baby boy Donalds last year, at par with the names “Abner,” “Enoch,” “Neythan,” “Ariun,” “Eros,” “Stone” and “Westley,” and slightly behind the likes of “Mohammad,” “Kash,” “Brandon,” “Maximus,” “Keanu” and “Truce,” among hundreds of others.

Parents haven’t been influenced by the first lady, either. “Melania” once cracked the top 1,000 most popular baby girl names — in 2017 — but did not appear before or after Trump’s first year in office, according to Social Security Administration records.

The White House did not return a request for comment.