Donisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Donisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,276 babies named Donisha between 1973 and 2016, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Donisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 77 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Donisha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 521 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Donisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 109 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Donisha in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Donisha 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 1,276 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.