Don: Name Meaning, Origin, Popularity, & Inspiration

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Don - 18% this year Masculine Rare Updated: June 9, 2019 Updated: June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

• Old English : Ruler of the world

Boy name variations

Donald Donn Donnie Donny Donaldson Donne Donghal Donal Donley Donnally Donnell

How Popular Is The Name Don

Family name origins & meanings

• Scottish : Aberdeenshire surname, presumably a topographic name referring to the River Don, although according to Black, it may be a variant of Dunn.
• Italian : in northern Italy (Venetia), from the personal name Dono, a shortening of dono di Dio ‘gift of God’; in the south, it is probably from the honorific title don, meaning ‘master’.
• French : from the personal name Dodo(ne).
• Spanish : unexplained; perhaps from the term of address don ‘mister’ (Latin dominus), in the patronymic form De Don, or perhaps a habitational name from a hypothetical place so called
• Hungarian : from a short form of the personal name Donát (see Donath).
• Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the personal name Don, a variant of Dan.
• Vietnamese ({D-}ôn) : unexplained.

Famous people with this first name

Don Johnson

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