Donis
Donis was last recorded in 2025, when 5 babies were given it; 726 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donis?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,521, in 1970; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1935, the peak
Donis peaked in 1935, when 29 babies were given it (24 girls, #1,518 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 5 | #12,526 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 9 | #8,494 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 8 | #9,204 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 9 | #8,344 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 10 | #7,651 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 11 | #7,284 | |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,521 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 5 | #4,564 | |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,984 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,433 | 6 | #3,635 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 12 | #3,748 | 7 | #3,427 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,168 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,585 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,302 | 5 | #4,130 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,083 | 5 | #4,090 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,148 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,780 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,203 | 10 | #2,583 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,774 | 5 | #3,868 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,121 | 5 | #3,846 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,043 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,047 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,663 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,782 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,412 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,637 | 6 | #3,088 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,181 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,276 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,834 | 5 | #3,699 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,654 | 8 | #2,709 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,785 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,692 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,948 | 6 | #3,260 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,995 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,179 | under 5 | |
| 1935 | 24 | #1,518 | 5 | #3,798 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,215 | 10 | #2,439 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,304 | 5 | #3,781 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,396 | under 5 | |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,290 | under 5 | |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,824 | 5 | #4,142 |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,902 | under 5 | |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,307 | under 5 | |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,117 | under 5 | |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,920 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,953 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,848 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,768 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,307 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | 19 | #2,066 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,768 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,548 | 5 | #4,317 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,410 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,936 | under 5 | |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,638 | under 5 | |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,202 | under 5 | |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,905 | 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 Donis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 726 Americans recorded as Donis, 78% are girls and 22% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Donis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donis, and how old are they?
An estimated 286 Americans named Donis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (39% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 60 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 705 people named Donis (302 women and girls, 403 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 323 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,238 babies since 1880, Donis is the second most given (32% 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 Donis
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 Donis and names like it
- Compare Donis and DonnisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sDonis peaked in 1935.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donis since 1910.
- The top names of 1935The year the most babies were named Donis.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Donis alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.