Donta
Donta is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. Its best rank was 770th, in 1978.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1991141 births
- Best rank
- #770in 1978
- Since 1964
- 3,980people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,889 boys have been named Donta in the United States since 1964, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1991, with 141 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1990, and the 1980s alone account for 28%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 91 girls have also been given it, 2.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1991, its biggest year
Donta was the 890th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1991 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1991.
Names that rose and fell with Donta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kristoferpeak 1978
- Rasheempeak 1991
- Jamelpeak 1988
- Sharifpeak 1980
- Demetrispeak 1990
- Rodriquezpeak 1992
- Ryanpeak 1985
- Antwoinepeak 1984
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.