Donah — girls' name
29 babies named Donah in U.S. Social Security records since 1936, with the highest year being 1950. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
38% of everyone ever named Donah was born in this single decade.
7 babies were named Donah in 1950 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Donah
The Social Security Administration has registered 29 babies named Donah between 1936 and 1960, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Donah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1960. The name reached its historical peak in 1950, when 7 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Donah performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 11 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Donah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Donah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 29 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Donah at a glance
Last recorded 1960Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Donah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1960–1936
- Peak year (1950)
- 7
- Annual births at peak — across 25 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1960.
29 total births across 25 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1950 with 7 births in a single year.
Donah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- 11 births that decade — 38% of Donah's all-time total
Donah decade highlights
- Peak decade 11 births
- Runner-up 7 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1940s was Donah's strongest decade
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 38% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1936–1960 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.