There haven’t been many children named Donald recently, and for those with TDS, that was reason to celebrate. It’s been a relatively slow news cycle, at least if you ignore the revelations about Dr. Anthony Fauci and the U.K. migrant rape gangs, so the leftist media busied themselves by talking about baby names - and making it all about Donald Trump. On Tuesday’s episode of his increasingly-unhinged show The Last Word, MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell happily jumped on that train, as he does with every anti-Trump stance he can find.
Yes, the big bad orange man takes up so much of the liberal media’s headspace that the mere decrease in popularity of the name “Donald” makes them jump for joy. Over the last 24 hours, leftist sources like NOTUS, The Independent, and The Daily Beast have all published pieces on the name Donald’s unpopularity.
“More people named their babies Lawrence, a name I would not wish on anyone, than Donald,” O’Donnell crowed on his show. But for most of history, Donald has trounced Lawrence in the numbers. Lawrence only peaked at 10,302 in 1952, while Donald’s highest number was about three times that. Both have declined recently, with only 183 more baby Lawrences than Donalds in 2025.
And of course, O’Donnell made another Trump-Hitler connection based on this groundbreaking baby names news: “Adolf dropped rather dramatically in popularity after Adolf Hitler executed six million Jewish people in death camps while he was losing World War II before he took his own life.”
The name Adolf was never popular anywhere in the world. In the U.S., it peaked in 1918, with only 56 babies; in Czechia with 31 in 1939; and in 1893 in Germany with a whopping 11 baby Adolfs. And after the events of World War II, many countries and some American states outright banned the name, and everywhere it isn’t illegal, it’s socially unacceptable.
O’Donnell suggested that the same kind of ostracization awaits the name Donald in the near future: “Less than 400 babies out of 3.6 million babies born last year will have to live with the name Donald, which they might want to change after taking elementary school history classes.”
Get ready for some more numbers: Donald has fallen in the Social Security Administration's ranking to number 673, with 395 babies given that name in 2025. It peaked in 1934 at number six, with 30,408 babies named Donald that year. When President Trump was born in 1946, there were 26,272 other baby Donalds in the same year. But after 1956, the name Donald declined sharply. Trump was 10 years old at the time, so that’s probably not his fault.
Donald is hardly the only name to have a significant decline since the mid-1900s. Other Presidents’ names, such as Ronald, Dwight, Franklin, and even William (Bill) and George saw their popularity drop over the same time period.
Barack is so uncommon that it doesn’t even rank in the top 1000 for baby names, yet no liberal media outlet would dare to suggest that Obama was a failed president because of that.
While the name Donald has risen and fallen with the usual trends, it’s highly unlikely that it will forever live in infamy, unless RFK Jr. classifies TDS as a real mental illness. As Senator John Kennedy says, “There’s no cure for stupid.”
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MS NOW's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
6/23/26
10:00:46 p.m. EasternLAWRENCE O'DONNELL: Well, Donald Trump has scored his lowest job approval rating yet in a Reuters poll at 34 percent.
And we have what could be another measure of Donald Trump's unpopularity and disapproval: baby names.
Donald is the new Adolf. The baby name Donald has hit its lowest point in popularity in American history. According to Social Security Administration data reviewed by the website NOTUS, News of the United States, “The federal agency received fewer than 400 Social Security card applications for babies - baby Donald's last year, making Donald the nation's 690th most popular baby name amid Trump's return to the White House for a second term.”
Less than 400 babies out of 3.6 million babies born last year will have to live with the name Donald, which they might want to change after taking elementary school history classes.
More people named their babies Lawrence, a name I would not wish on anyone, than Donald. More babies were actually named Princeton last year than Donald. Princeton, a name I've never heard for anything other than a town in New Jersey. And oh yeah, university.
Adolf dropped rather dramatically in popularity after Adolf Hitler executed six million Jewish people in death camps while he was losing World War II before he took his own life.
And we learned last night from the reporting of maybe Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan in their new book, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, that Donald Trump happily compares himself to Adolf Hitler, because a caddie for a retired professional golfer wrote an assessment of the most powerful people in history in which the caddie concluded that Donald Trump is more powerful than Adolf Hitler was, or Joseph Stalin, or any of the other mass murdering, hateful, sociopathic dictators in history. And Donald Trump is proud of that.
Donald Trump is so proud to be compared to Adolf Hitler, that he actually gave that document, written by the caddie to Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. From page 412 of their book, “The evident pleasure Trump took in the company of Mao, Hitler and Stalin. He drew no distinction between those who built and those who destroyed, between those who liberated and those who enslaved. What mattered was that they had had huge power, and that he had more.”
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