Doneisha
Doneisha was last recorded in 2003, when 6 babies were given it; 365 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Doneisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Doneisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,370, in 2003; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1993, the peak
Doneisha peaked in 1993, when 29 girls were given it, #3,702 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 6 | #14,370 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,022 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,167 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,723 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,639 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,578 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,118 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,381 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,720 | 16.2 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,702 | 16.0 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 28 | #3,795 | 15.2 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,095 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,554 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,356 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,697 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,906 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,249 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,145 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,419 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,585 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,021 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,491 | 5.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,683 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Doneisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Doneisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Doneisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Doneisha, and how old are they?
An estimated 356 Americans named Doneisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 30 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 273 people named Doneisha (272 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 359 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 3,455 babies since 1880, Doneisha is the fourth most given (11% 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Doneisha
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 Doneisha and names like it
- Compare Doneisha and DonishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDoneisha peaked in 1993.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Doneisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Doneisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Doneisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.