Doni — unisex name
679 babies named Doni in U.S. Social Security records since 1946, with the highest year being 1957. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
28% of everyone ever named Doni was born in this single decade.
29 babies were named Doni in 1957 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Doni
The Social Security Administration has registered 679 babies named Doni between 1946 and 2013, spanning 68 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Doni currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 1957, when 29 babies received it in a single year. Doni is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 144 additional births since 1961.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Doni performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 191 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Doni shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 39 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Doni in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Doni 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 679 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.
Doni at a glance
Last recorded 2013Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Doni popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2013–1946
- Peak year (1957)
- 29
- Annual births at peak — across 68 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2013.
679 total births across 68 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1957 with 29 births in a single year.
Doni popularity over time — boys
144 total births recorded since 1961 (Doni as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Doni accounts for 17% of total recorded use across both genders.
Doni by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 191 births that decade — 28% of Doni's all-time total
Doni decade highlights
- Peak decade 191 births
- Runner-up 166 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Doni's strongest decade
191 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 28% of all-time use.
Doni by state
Where Doni concentrates geographically — total births since 1946
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 39 | 5.7% |
39 of 679 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 5.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 5.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1946–2013 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.