Donie
Donie was last recorded in 1990, when 6 babies were given it; 1,087 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Donie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Donie is “a diminutive of the female given name Syndonia.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Donal.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Donie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,260, in 1975; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1895, the peak
Donie peaked in 1895, when 25 girls were given it, #611 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | under 5 | 6 | #7,414 | |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,260 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,671 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,767 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,048 | 6 | #3,659 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,024 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,056 | 9 | #2,904 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,438 | 7 | #3,438 |
| 1960 | under 5 | 6 | #3,766 | |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,580 | 11 | #2,525 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 7 | #4,958 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 5 | #3,967 | |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,014 | 10 | #2,582 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,883 | 6 | #3,461 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,120 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,956 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,510 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,712 | 5 | #3,439 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,191 | 6 | #3,196 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,091 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,790 | 6 | #3,309 |
| 1941 | under 5 | 5 | #3,632 | |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,770 | 5 | #3,616 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,904 | 7 | #2,985 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,453 | under 5 | |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,489 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,977 | under 5 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 6 | #3,363 | |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,533 | 6 | #3,474 |
| 1931 | under 5 | 7 | #3,176 | |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,726 | 6 | #3,685 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,758 | under 5 | |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,855 | under 5 | |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,742 | under 5 | |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,498 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,519 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 22 | #1,887 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,387 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,800 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,313 | 6 | #3,976 |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,029 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,547 | under 5 | |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,977 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,861 | under 5 | |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,704 | under 5 | |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,534 | under 5 | |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,616 | under 5 | |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,617 | under 5 | |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,637 | under 5 | |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,567 | under 5 | |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,813 | under 5 | |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,167 | under 5 | |
| 1908 | 14 | #1,102 | under 5 | |
| 1907 | 11 | #1,230 | under 5 | |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,352 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 14 | #1,023 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 15 | #943 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | 13 | #990 | under 5 | |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,242 | under 5 | |
| 1901 | 22 | #687 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 14 | #1,019 | under 5 | |
| 1899 | 20 | #709 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 16 | #849 | under 5 | |
| 1897 | 12 | #937 | under 5 | |
| 1896 | 22 | #672 | under 5 | |
| 1895 | 25 | #611 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 18 | #701 | under 5 | |
| 1893 | 17 | #724 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | 21 | #621 | under 5 | |
| 1891 | 15 | #700 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 20 | #584 | under 5 | |
| 1889 | 20 | #576 | under 5 | |
| 1888 | 22 | #536 | under 5 | |
| 1887 | 13 | #640 | under 5 | |
| 1886 | 22 | #465 | under 5 | |
| 1885 | 22 | #449 | under 5 | |
| 1884 | 16 | #524 | under 5 | |
| 1883 | 13 | #548 | under 5 | |
| 1882 | 11 | #574 | under 5 | |
| 1881 | 6 | #759 | under 5 | |
| 1880 | 9 | #593 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Donie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,087 Americans recorded as Donie, 88% are girls and 12% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Donie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donie, and how old are they?
An estimated 166 Americans named Donie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (15% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 63 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 326 people named Donie (180 women and girls, 146 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 213 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 859,238 babies since 1880, Donie is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 121 babies recorded by SSA was a Donie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Donie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1880-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Vinnie | 3,939 |
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 Donie and names like it
- Compare Donie and DonnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1890sDonie peaked in 1895.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donie since 1910.
- The top names of 1895The year the most babies were named Donie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Donie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.