Donnia
Donnia was last recorded in 2006, when 5 babies were given it; 394 Americans have been recorded with it between 1926 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donnia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donnia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,896, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1956, the peak
Donnia peaked in 1956, when 22 girls were given it, #2,407 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | #17,896 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,850 | 2.7 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,813 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,102 | 2.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,772 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,090 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,675 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,828 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,499 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,868 | 5.5 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 8 | #5,102 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,019 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,435 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,711 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,080 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,201 | 8.1 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,832 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,395 | 6.9 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,782 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,264 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,756 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,407 | 11.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,850 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,547 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,015 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,214 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,984 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,105 | 7.0 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,048 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,297 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,512 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,275 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,963 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,984 | 7.5 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,903 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,836 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,657 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,588 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,406 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,949 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,218 | 7.5 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,440 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Donnia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Donnia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Donnia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donnia, and how old are they?
An estimated 296 Americans named Donnia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 59 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 306 people named Donnia (304 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 324 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
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 Donnia?
Donnia is a less common spelling of Donya: SSA has recorded 394 Donnia and 2,606 Donya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 859,231 babies since 1880, Donnia is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 121 babies recorded by SSA was a Donnia (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 Donnia
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 Donnia and names like it
- Compare Donnia and DonyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDonnia peaked in 1956.
- Indiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donnia since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Donnia.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Donnia alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.