Donie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Donie

The Social Security Administration has registered 956 babies named Donie between 1880 and 1975, spanning 96 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Donie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1975. The name reached its historical peak in 1895, when 25 babies received it in a single year. Donie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 131 additional births since 1921.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Donie performed strongest in the 1890s, accumulating 186 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Donie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Donie in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Donie 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 956 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.