Donisha
Donisha was last recorded in 2016, when 7 babies were given it; 1,276 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,240 Americans named Donisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 31 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,288, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
77 babies in 1991, the peak
Donisha peaked in 1991, when 77 girls were given it, #1,832 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 7 | #13,288 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,782 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,254 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,059 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,699 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,014 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,298 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,372 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,693 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,058 | 8.3 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 33 | #3,817 | 18.2 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,617 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,057 | 15.8 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,834 | 24.7 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,085 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 60 | #2,218 | 34.1 |
| 1994 | 76 | #1,868 | 42.6 |
| 1993 | 72 | #1,949 | 39.8 |
| 1992 | 61 | #2,192 | 33.1 |
| 1991 | 77 | #1,832 | 41.1 |
| 1990 | 54 | #2,321 | 28.4 |
| 1989 | 70 | #1,874 | 38.0 |
| 1988 | 60 | #1,989 | 33.7 |
| 1987 | 47 | #2,281 | 27.0 |
| 1986 | 48 | #2,173 | 28.0 |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,448 | 23.2 |
| 1984 | 61 | #1,775 | 36.2 |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,801 | 18.6 |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,335 | 24.8 |
| 1981 | 37 | #2,535 | 22.2 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,546 | 22.3 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,366 | 15.0 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,810 | 18.9 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,198 | 15.7 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,885 | 17.7 |
| 1975 | 16 | #3,990 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,590 | 12.3 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,692 | 6.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Donisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Donisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Donisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donisha, and how old are they?
1,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,276 Americans ever recorded as Donisha. The median Donisha alive today is 36 years old; half are between 31 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 980 people named Donisha (979 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,250 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 174 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 839 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 221 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Donisha born?
The states with the most babies named Donisha are California, Illinois and Louisiana, with 71% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 109 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 90 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Louisiana | 54 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Ohio | 34 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 22 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 8 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Kentucky | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Donisha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 3,455 babies since 1880, Donisha is the most given (37% 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 Donisha
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 Donisha and names like it
- Compare Donisha and DoneshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDonisha peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Donisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Donisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.