Donnette
Donnette was last recorded in 1996, when 6 babies were given it; 1,210 Americans have been recorded with it between 1931 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donnette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Donnette mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Donnette is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
Possibly from Donna + -ette.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Donnette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,270, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 1963, the peak
Donnette peaked in 1963, when 48 girls were given it, #1,654 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 | #12,270 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,194 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,940 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,763 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,676 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,216 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,677 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,198 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,421 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,434 | 7.6 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 9 | #6,956 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,542 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,034 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,650 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,569 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,169 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,117 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,012 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,205 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,667 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,852 | 17.0 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,146 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,765 | 16.4 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,495 | 18.0 |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,050 | 12.6 |
| 1969 | 39 | #2,008 | 23.1 |
| 1968 | 45 | #1,755 | 27.4 |
| 1967 | 42 | #1,793 | 25.4 |
| 1966 | 40 | #1,805 | 23.6 |
| 1965 | 31 | #2,124 | 17.6 |
| 1964 | 40 | #1,869 | 21.1 |
| 1963 | 48 | #1,654 | 24.9 |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,692 | 22.9 |
| 1961 | 44 | #1,727 | 21.8 |
| 1960 | 42 | #1,750 | 20.8 |
| 1959 | 27 | #2,202 | 13.3 |
| 1958 | 25 | #2,275 | 12.4 |
| 1957 | 30 | #2,001 | 14.7 |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,805 | 17.4 |
| 1955 | 23 | #2,292 | 11.8 |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,710 | 18.5 |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,450 | 10.1 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,707 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,136 | 12.2 |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,920 | 14.6 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,027 | 13.4 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,349 | 10.6 |
| 1947 | 38 | #1,527 | 21.4 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,079 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,154 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,117 | 12.8 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,839 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,570 | 9.6 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,573 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,282 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,973 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,984 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,600 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,354 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,490 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,182 | 7.9 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,482 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Donnette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Donnette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Donnette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donnette, and how old are they?
An estimated 990 Americans named Donnette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 53 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,293 people named Donnette (1,287 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,055 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,919 babies since 1880, Donnette is the third most given (20% 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 Donnette
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 Donnette and names like it
- Compare Donnette and DonettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDonnette peaked in 1963.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donnette since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Donnette: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Donnette.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Donnette alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.