Donat
Donat was last recorded in 1966, when 6 babies were given it; 351 Americans have been recorded with it between 1894 and 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donat by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donat?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,629, in 1966; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1918, the peak
Donat peaked in 1918, when 22 boys were given it, #1,613 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 6 | #3,629 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,204 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,751 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,286 | 3.3 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,867 | 2.6 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,399 | 3.4 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,613 | 5.9 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,195 | 4.4 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,307 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,229 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 7 | #2,940 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,205 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,259 | 5.4 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,763 | 7.7 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,051 | 6.8 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,591 | 9.1 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,909 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,518 | 9.6 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,811 | 8.4 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,295 | 11.7 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,543 | 6.2 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,457 | 10.8 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,472 | 10.8 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,068 | 14.1 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,145 | 13.7 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,672 | 10.1 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,722 | 19.1 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,642 | 10.3 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,547 | 11.2 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,613 | 21.7 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,464 | 11.9 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,295 | 13.5 |
| 1915 | 15 | #1,895 | 17.7 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,720 | 10.7 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,321 | 13.7 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,061 | 48.7 |
| 1894 | 6 | #983 | 51.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Donat a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Donat has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Donat: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donat, and how old are they?
An estimated 44 Americans named Donat and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 222 people named Donat (3 women and girls, 219 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 65 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Donat rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Donat
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 Donat and names like it
- Compare Donat and OrvinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sDonat peaked in 1918.
- Massachusetts’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donat since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Donat.
- Names starting with DMost given first.