Entry № 2617 · Irish origin

Donovan Donovan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DON-uh-van /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Dark warrior (Donovan singer; modern unisex)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "dark warrior (donovan singer; modern unisex)".

Donovan is from the Irish Ó Donndubháin — donn (dark) + dubh (black) + án (diminutive) — descendant of the dark warrior.

Dark warrior (Donovan singer; modern unisex) — a Irish name.

The name in its native script.

Donovan
Transliteration
Donovan
Pronunciation
/ ˈdɒn.ə.væn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Donovan stands.

Donovan does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Donovans before her.

Real people
Donovan (Leitch)
Scottish folk-rock singer.
born 1946
Donovan Mitchell
American NBA All-Star.
born 1996
In fiction
Donovan
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Donovan.

The number behind Donovan.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Donovan reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.