Donita
Donita was last recorded in 2009, when 5 babies were given it; 5,189 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,100 Americans named Donita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 53 and 71.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,062, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
199 babies in 1962, the peak
Donita peaked in 1962, when 199 girls were given it, #735 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #18,062 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,008 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,918 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,645 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,495 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,253 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,005 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,969 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,753 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,551 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 16 | #5,789 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,531 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,170 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,149 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,722 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 46 | #2,314 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,636 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,499 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,526 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,319 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 46 | #2,194 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 54 | #1,964 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 73 | #1,588 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 61 | #1,780 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 67 | #1,600 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 69 | #1,568 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 66 | #1,540 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 85 | #1,301 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 85 | #1,270 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 103 | #1,098 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 82 | #1,258 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 100 | #1,161 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 109 | #1,089 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 95 | #1,143 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 110 | #1,000 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 103 | #1,012 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 125 | #901 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 127 | #888 | 0.07 |
| 1964 | 132 | #910 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 130 | #926 | 0.07 |
| 1962 | 199 | #735 | 0.10 |
| 1961 | 159 | #836 | 0.08 |
| 1960 | 141 | #875 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 163 | #800 | 0.08 |
| 1958 | 148 | #836 | 0.07 |
| 1957 | 176 | #751 | 0.09 |
| 1956 | 162 | #768 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 178 | #706 | 0.09 |
| 1954 | 163 | #722 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 179 | #672 | 0.10 |
| 1952 | 155 | #715 | 0.08 |
| 1951 | 133 | #765 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 106 | #859 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 87 | #959 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 63 | #1,127 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 80 | #985 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 70 | #1,007 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 37 | #1,315 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 37 | #1,319 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 40 | #1,295 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,503 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 34 | #1,320 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 52 | #992 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,603 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 28 | #1,417 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 28 | #1,392 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 27 | #1,421 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,682 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,378 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,411 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 23 | #1,605 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 24 | #1,561 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,825 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,030 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,308 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,422 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,973 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,170 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,559 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,720 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,111 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,611 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,169 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,602 | under 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,453 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Donita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Donita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 85 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Donita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donita, and how old are they?
4,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 79% of the 5,189 Americans ever recorded as Donita. The median Donita alive today is 63 years old; half are between 53 and 71.
The 2020 Census counted 4,241 people named Donita (4,230 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,401 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 172 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,080 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,350 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 457 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 48 |
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 Donita born?
The states with the most babies named Donita are Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 306 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 276 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Illinois | 252 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 185 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Kansas | 184 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Oklahoma | 171 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Iowa | 155 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Michigan | 141 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 132 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 106 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Donita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Donita is most over-represented in Kansas: since 1915 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Donita 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 8,733 babies since 1880, Donita is the most given (59% 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 Donita
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 Donita and names like it
- Compare Donita and DonettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDonita peaked in 1962.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donita since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Donita.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Donita alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.