Dondi — boys' name

What the Data Says About Dondi

The Social Security Administration has registered 766 babies named Dondi between 1956 and 2002, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dondi currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2002. The name reached its historical peak in 1961, when 50 babies received it in a single year. Dondi is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 375 additional births since 1956.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dondi performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 363 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Dondi shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 31 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Dondi in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dondi 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 766 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.