Donna
Donna is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 102 births. Its best rank was 5th, in 1959–1960.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1020.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 195936,469 births
- Best rank
- #5first in 1959
- Since 1880
- 833,769people given the name
The story in the numbers
831,536 girls have been named Donna in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 36,469 births — 1.8% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 102 births in 2024, against 36,469 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1950s alone account for 33%. It has spent 129 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 51 of them in the top 100 and 12 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,233 boys have also been given it, 0.27% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Donna | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 265 | |
| 1890s | 440 | |
| 1900s | 790 | |
| 1910s | 4,293 | |
| 1920s | 26,160 | |
| 1930s | 78,846 | |
| 1940s | 165,523 | |
| 1950s | 270,333 | |
| 1960s | 213,467 | |
| 1970s | 47,344 | |
| 1980s | 13,044 | |
| 1990s | 5,663 | |
| 2000s | 3,185 | |
| 2010s | 1,640 | |
| 2020s | 543 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Donna was the 5th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1959 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Donna
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Maureenpeak 1957
- Conniepeak 1955
- Darlenepeak 1958
- Gaylenepeak 1956
- Gayepeak 1960
- Noreenpeak 1948
- Alfrediapeak 1958
- Mariannpeak 1957
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.