Donnetta
Donnetta was last recorded in 2005, when 7 babies were given it; 1,521 Americans have been recorded with it between 1920 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Donnetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 47 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donnetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Donnetta mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Donnetta is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
Possibly from Donna + -etta.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Donnetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,385, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
47 babies in 1962, the peak
Donnetta peaked in 1962, when 47 girls were given it, #1,655 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 7 | #13,385 | 3.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,740 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,371 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,971 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,823 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,739 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,104 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,026 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,218 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,915 | 13.6 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 14 | #5,676 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,163 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,021 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,316 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,762 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 28 | #2,999 | 16.8 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,277 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,797 | 19.2 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,240 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,172 | 16.2 |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,955 | 17.6 |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,679 | 20.2 |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,304 | 24.6 |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,281 | 24.7 |
| 1974 | 32 | #2,407 | 21.8 |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,467 | 20.6 |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,861 | 29.6 |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,681 | 16.2 |
| 1970 | 41 | #2,024 | 23.5 |
| 1969 | 47 | #1,789 | 27.9 |
| 1968 | 35 | #2,029 | 21.3 |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,956 | 21.8 |
| 1966 | 40 | #1,804 | 23.6 |
| 1965 | 42 | #1,751 | 23.8 |
| 1964 | 32 | #2,115 | 16.9 |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,689 | 23.9 |
| 1962 | 47 | #1,655 | 23.9 |
| 1961 | 44 | #1,726 | 21.8 |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,111 | 14.8 |
| 1959 | 32 | #1,995 | 15.8 |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,825 | 17.9 |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,180 | 12.7 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,269 | 12.0 |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,171 | 12.8 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,134 | 12.9 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,939 | 14.9 |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,146 | 12.4 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,838 | 7.8 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,696 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,238 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 21 | #2,141 | 12.4 |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,299 | 10.7 |
| 1946 | 20 | #2,106 | 12.7 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,496 | 9.9 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,432 | 10.5 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,912 | 15.1 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,795 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,881 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,020 | 7.9 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,553 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,906 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,454 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,371 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,545 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,934 | 8.9 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,746 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,240 | 7.8 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,955 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,153 | 4.1 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,140 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,170 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Donnetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Donnetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Donnetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donnetta, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 1,521 Americans ever recorded as Donnetta. The median Donnetta alive today is 57 years old; half are between 47 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 1,194 people named Donnetta (1,194 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,334 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 48 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 413 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 515 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 271 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 17 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 6,918 babies since 1880, Donnetta is the second most given (22% 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 Donnetta
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 Donnetta and names like it
- Compare Donnetta and DonettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDonnetta peaked in 1962.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donnetta since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Donnetta: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Donnetta.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Donnetta alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.