Donne
Donne was last recorded in 1975, when 10 babies were given it; 196 Americans have been recorded with it between 1926 and 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donne?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,455, in 1975; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1960, the peak
Donne peaked in 1960, when 19 babies were given it (11 girls, #3,970 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 5 | #9,455 | 5 | #5,690 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,672 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,846 | 8 | #3,390 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,442 | 6 | #3,810 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,707 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,987 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 5 | #4,205 | |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,995 | 7 | #3,439 |
| 1960 | 11 | #3,970 | 8 | #3,150 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,028 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 11 | #3,755 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,195 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 6 | #3,597 | |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,777 | 5 | #3,869 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,494 | 8 | #2,829 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,809 | 5 | #3,822 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,448 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,889 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,794 | 5 | #3,700 |
| 1938 | under 5 | 7 | #2,940 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 5 | #3,782 | |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,020 | 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 Donne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 196 Americans recorded as Donne, 59% are girls and 41% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Donne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donne, and how old are they?
An estimated 140 Americans named Donne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 58 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 441 people named Donne (247 women and girls, 194 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 154 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Donne rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 859,231 babies since 1880, Donne is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 121 babies recorded by SSA was a Donne (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Donne
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 Donne and names like it
- Compare Donne and DonnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDonne peaked in 1960.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Donne.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Donne alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.