Donae
Donae was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 203 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donae?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,946, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 2004, the peak
Donae peaked in 2004, when 15 girls were given it, #7,503 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #16,946 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,885 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,511 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,758 | 4.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,892 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,384 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,503 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,680 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,015 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,572 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 10 | #9,346 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,969 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,773 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,048 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,831 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,254 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,819 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,829 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,185 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,757 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,516 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,221 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,635 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,846 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,681 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Donae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 203 Americans recorded as Donae, 97% are girls and 3% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Donae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donae, and how old are they?
An estimated 199 Americans named Donae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 22 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 281 people named Donae (249 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 200 born in the U.S. The Census count is 41% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 859,040 babies since 1880, Donae is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 121 babies recorded by SSA was a Donae (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Donae
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Donae and names like it
- Compare Donae and DonnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDonae peaked in 2004.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Donae.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Donae alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.