Donney
Donney was last recorded in 1976, when 5 babies were given it; 106 Americans have been recorded with it between 1948 and 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donney?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,833, in 1976; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1954, the peak
Donney peaked in 1954, when 12 boys were given it, #2,345 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 | #5,833 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,434 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,113 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,327 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,151 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,880 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,691 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,287 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,627 | 4.9 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,345 | 5.9 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 9 | #2,761 | 4.6 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,626 | 5.0 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,824 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,807 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Donney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Donney has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Donney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donney, and how old are they?
An estimated 74 Americans named Donney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 175 people named Donney (10 women and girls, 165 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 83 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times 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).
How common is the spelling Donney?
Donney is a less common spelling of Donnie: SSA has recorded 106 Donney and 68,060 Donnie since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 82,294 babies since 1880, Donney is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 117 babies recorded by SSA was a Donney (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.
More about Donney and names like it
- Compare Donney and DonnieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDonney peaked in 1954.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Donney.
- Names starting with DMost given first.