Donis — unisex name

What the Data Says About Donis

The Social Security Administration has registered 565 babies named Donis between 1913 and 1970, spanning 58 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Donis currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1970. The name reached its historical peak in 1935, when 24 babies received it in a single year. Donis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 156 additional births since 1919.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Donis performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 154 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Donis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 18 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Donis in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Donis 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 565 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.