Doneta
Doneta was last recorded in 1970, when 5 babies were given it; 144 Americans have been recorded with it between 1928 and 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Doneta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Doneta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,314, in 1970; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1931, the peak
Doneta peaked in 1931, when 11 girls were given it, #2,617 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 5 | #8,314 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,047 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,780 | 2.8 |
| 1963 | 8 | #4,993 | 4.2 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,437 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,881 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,336 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,578 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,457 | 3.0 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,693 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 5 | #5,772 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,119 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,874 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,435 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,447 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,508 | 2.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,711 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,837 | 3.6 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,973 | 5.2 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,430 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,572 | 4.7 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,617 | 10.3 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,506 | 6.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Doneta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Doneta 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 Doneta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Doneta, and how old are they?
An estimated 90 Americans named Doneta 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 179 people named Doneta (176 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 104 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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).
How common is the spelling Doneta?
Doneta is a less common spelling of Donetta: SSA has recorded 144 Doneta and 1,994 Donetta since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,448 babies since 1880, Doneta is the seventh most given (1.3% 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Doneta
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 Doneta and names like it
- Compare Doneta and DonettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sDoneta peaked in 1931.
- The top names of 1931The year the most babies were named Doneta.
- Names starting with DMost given first.