Donetta
Donetta was last recorded in 2002, when 6 babies were given it; 1,994 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,520 Americans named Donetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 52 and 71.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,087, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
65 babies in 1956, the peak
Donetta peaked in 1956, when 65 girls were given it, #1,288 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 6 | #14,087 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,073 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,809 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,832 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,192 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,208 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,202 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,663 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,570 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,217 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 11 | #7,103 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,048 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,027 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,785 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,147 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,631 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,456 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,391 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,894 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,792 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,810 | 19.3 |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,025 | 17.0 |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,732 | 19.6 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,618 | 20.5 |
| 1975 | 38 | #2,207 | 26.1 |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,514 | 20.4 |
| 1973 | 34 | #2,275 | 23.3 |
| 1972 | 35 | #2,183 | 23.0 |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,010 | 25.2 |
| 1970 | 35 | #2,245 | 20.0 |
| 1969 | 51 | #1,692 | 30.2 |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,654 | 29.9 |
| 1967 | 42 | #1,791 | 25.4 |
| 1966 | 49 | #1,605 | 29.0 |
| 1965 | 52 | #1,548 | 29.5 |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,811 | 22.2 |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,760 | 22.3 |
| 1962 | 56 | #1,500 | 28.5 |
| 1961 | 50 | #1,602 | 24.8 |
| 1960 | 54 | #1,507 | 26.7 |
| 1959 | 57 | #1,419 | 28.2 |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,742 | 19.4 |
| 1957 | 41 | #1,687 | 20.1 |
| 1956 | 65 | #1,288 | 32.4 |
| 1955 | 40 | #1,620 | 20.5 |
| 1954 | 43 | #1,542 | 22.1 |
| 1953 | 52 | #1,349 | 27.6 |
| 1952 | 45 | #1,442 | 24.3 |
| 1951 | 44 | #1,415 | 24.4 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,968 | 14.0 |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,569 | 20.5 |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,791 | 16.5 |
| 1947 | 43 | #1,418 | 24.3 |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,820 | 15.9 |
| 1945 | 29 | #1,525 | 22.2 |
| 1944 | 32 | #1,441 | 24.1 |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,802 | 16.5 |
| 1942 | 32 | #1,455 | 23.7 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,967 | 14.9 |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,528 | 22.7 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,972 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,474 | 10.9 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,348 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,410 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,681 | 20.0 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,322 | 12.4 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,436 | 11.9 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,688 | 10.3 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,965 | 16.0 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,422 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,975 | 9.0 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,306 | 13.0 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,954 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,971 | 5.9 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,264 | 4.0 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,444 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,305 | 4.1 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,546 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Donetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Donetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Donetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donetta, and how old are they?
1,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 76% of the 1,994 Americans ever recorded as Donetta. The median Donetta alive today is 61 years old; half are between 52 and 71.
The 2020 Census counted 1,522 people named Donetta (1,521 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,648 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 110 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 649 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 543 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 203 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 16 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 12,555 babies since 1880, Donetta is the second most given (16% 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 Donetta
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 Donetta and names like it
- Compare Donetta and DonitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDonetta peaked in 1956.
- Indiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donetta since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Donetta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Donetta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.