Donata
Donata was last recorded in 2004, when 8 babies were given it; 551 Americans have been recorded with it between 1908 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donata by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Donata mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Donata is “a female given name, masculine equivalent Donato”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Donata?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,916, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1956, the peak
Donata peaked in 1956, when 19 girls were given it, #2,651 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 8 | #11,916 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,458 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,300 | 4.4 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,893 | 3.4 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,563 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,721 | 3.4 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,333 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,031 | 5.3 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,597 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,506 | 7.5 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 7 | #7,835 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,746 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,495 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,642 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,090 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,846 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,735 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,777 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,520 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,843 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,438 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,216 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,265 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,432 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,710 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,669 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,064 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,490 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,747 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,166 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,127 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,754 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,651 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,851 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,780 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,762 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,841 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,118 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,744 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,686 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,446 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,781 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,128 | 3.2 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,179 | 4.5 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,831 | 5.2 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,947 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,215 | 7.5 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,656 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,421 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,974 | 9.0 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,505 | 6.9 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,904 | 9.2 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,318 | 7.6 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,559 | 4.9 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,104 | 5.6 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,438 | 7.5 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,738 | 6.7 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,751 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,623 | 10.8 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,391 | 5.3 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,417 | 5.2 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,760 | 4.6 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,087 | 8.6 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,452 | 5.1 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,721 | 20.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Donata a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Donata has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Donata: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donata, and how old are they?
An estimated 344 Americans named Donata and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (62% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 49 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 766 people named Donata (756 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 375 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 8,733 babies since 1880, Donata is the fourth most given (6.3% of them).
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.
More about Donata and names like it
- Compare Donata and DonitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDonata peaked in 1956.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donata since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Donata: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Donata.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Donata alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.