Comments for the name Donovan

The spelling Donivan is a related name.

Donovan Bailey is a track runner who won several Olympic medals.

I love the name Donovan. It has a catchy sound to it, like Flanagan and Sullivan, 2 other Irish names.

American football's Philadelphia Eagles' quarterback Donovan McNab is another who bears this name.

I love the name Donovan. I think of it as being a name for someone who is very hip and stylish but not frou frou. What I mean is that it is very boyish and strong without sounding like a meathead's name. I would jump to use it if I was not afraid that people would just call him Donny, yuck.

Donovan is the last name of Clyde Donovan, one of the children in South Park.

Actress Charisma Carpenter and her husband Damian Hardy have a son Donovan, at 9:50 PM on 24th March 2003 at Cedar Sinai hospital in Los Angeles.

This name always produces good feelings when I hear it on someone, it's so refreshing instead of Michael or John or William.

I have a book of names that says it means "Dark Warrior".

I really like this name, I find it to be kinda romantic.

I bore this name as a surname for 25 years and my kids still have it as theirs. We think it's a cool name, too. The few issues we have had have been that people tend to want to pronounce it, dah-nah-ven, when in reality, it's, duh-nuh-vin, and they tend to misspell it A LOT -- Dunovan being the most popular. My ex-husband and his family are reeeeal firm about the pronunciation though, just so you know!

Donovan Leitch, simply known as Donovan, is a Scottish singer, songwriter, and guitarist. And a very good one too! You might know him if you lived in the '60s and '70s (or you just like music from that era, like me.)

This is the ONLY Irish name that I like. I like how it can fit any type of personality or nationality.

Why is it from Ó Donnabhain? Shouldn't they just say it's from Donnabhain?

Great name, though. Very masculine and cool. And it is certainly NOT the only Irish name that is so.

It's actually a cool name, but I don't like the nicknames Don and Donnie.

Can also be used for a girl. I've met a few girls with this name.

This is my husband's name. He pronounces it "Don-a-vin", and I've never heard it pronounced "Dun-uh-vin" like an above person says.

As for nicknames, nobody calls him "Donny", but his family endearingly calls him "Donno".

There should be an accent on the surname version: Ó Donnabháin. I've never met an Irish-speaker with this first name, but if I did, I would expect it to be spelled Donnabhán in that case, as Donnabháin is the genitive, 'of Donovan'.

I like the name Donovan and I disagree with one of the comments, I think it's a nice boy name that doesn't sound to macho. I also like that it's Irish since I'm partly Irish but I am not fond of the meaning because I don't know who is Donndubhán, I don't know if I am a descendant and "descendant of dark brown"? The meaning doesn't mean much to me.

I don't know why, but I'm a big guy-names-on-girls fan, but this name will fit anyone. I can imagine a 7th grader like Donovan going for his first job, and the manager saying "Wow, that's a really cool name!"