Donnie
Donnie was given to 89 boys in 2025, #1,796 among boys’ names; 68,060 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 43,700 Americans named Donnie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 50 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donnie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Donnie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Donnie is “a diminutive of the male given names Don, Donald, Donovan, and Adonis.”
Diminutives + -ie.
/ˈdɒni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Donnie?
#1,796 among boys’ names, 2025
Donnie fell from #1,430 in 2015 to #1,796 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 62.6 to 52.1 per million.
1,912 babies in 1952, the peak
Donnie peaked in 1952, when 1,912 babies were given it (1,805 boys, #156 among boys’ names). The 89 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 89 | #1,796 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 93 | #1,768 | |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,892 | 81 | #1,931 |
| 2022 | under 5 | 92 | #1,785 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 94 | #1,730 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 82 | #1,816 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 81 | #1,852 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 79 | #1,887 | |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,522 | 101 | #1,596 |
| 2016 | under 5 | 113 | #1,504 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 120 | #1,430 | |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,263 | 127 | #1,352 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 108 | #1,502 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 116 | #1,432 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,513 | 104 | #1,527 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 130 | #1,318 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 122 | #1,394 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 132 | #1,321 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 144 | #1,227 | |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,986 | 134 | #1,249 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 129 | #1,225 | |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,919 | 131 | #1,181 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 153 | #1,033 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 142 | #1,065 | |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,025 | 144 | #1,023 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 160 | #948 | |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,622 | 165 | #903 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,496 | 185 | #811 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 183 | #801 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,272 | 179 | #803 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,258 | 180 | #797 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,234 | 197 | #746 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,646 | 240 | #664 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,189 | 258 | #639 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,764 | 270 | #618 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,677 | 339 | #543 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,224 | 271 | #592 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,607 | 297 | #529 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,929 | 329 | #489 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,868 | 312 | #494 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,685 | 340 | #471 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,442 | 384 | #423 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,919 | 425 | #392 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,570 | 440 | #384 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,649 | 477 | #366 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,190 | 551 | #337 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,086 | 579 | #323 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,742 | 595 | #304 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,199 | 641 | #303 |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,950 | 703 | #275 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,827 | 739 | #264 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,777 | 759 | #255 |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,032 | 786 | #249 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,470 | 861 | #246 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,555 | 892 | #251 |
| 1970 | 42 | #1,989 | 913 | #252 |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,067 | 830 | #251 |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,173 | 874 | #242 |
| 1967 | 45 | #1,712 | 836 | #244 |
| 1966 | 54 | #1,517 | 871 | #239 |
| 1965 | 40 | #1,807 | 971 | #234 |
| 1964 | 50 | #1,614 | 1,109 | #226 |
| 1963 | 57 | #1,482 | 1,153 | #222 |
| 1962 | 60 | #1,434 | 1,303 | #212 |
| 1961 | 92 | #1,146 | 1,379 | #207 |
| 1960 | 74 | #1,281 | 1,564 | #193 |
| 1959 | 70 | #1,280 | 1,640 | #184 |
| 1958 | 96 | #1,069 | 1,598 | #181 |
| 1957 | 80 | #1,179 | 1,717 | #177 |
| 1956 | 100 | #1,023 | 1,723 | #173 |
| 1955 | 92 | #1,049 | 1,672 | #169 |
| 1954 | 105 | #940 | 1,770 | #162 |
| 1953 | 113 | #887 | 1,790 | #156 |
| 1952 | 107 | #892 | 1,805 | #156 |
| 1951 | 103 | #892 | 1,732 | #150 |
| 1950 | 94 | #918 | 1,724 | #150 |
| 1949 | 122 | #781 | 1,619 | #156 |
| 1948 | 138 | #715 | 1,482 | #162 |
| 1947 | 122 | #780 | 1,419 | #168 |
| 1946 | 131 | #705 | 1,275 | #165 |
| 1945 | 118 | #688 | 991 | #168 |
| 1944 | 129 | #652 | 983 | #171 |
| 1943 | 154 | #606 | 920 | #180 |
| 1942 | 128 | #662 | 837 | #191 |
| 1941 | 148 | #573 | 786 | #187 |
| 1940 | 115 | #651 | 674 | #197 |
| 1939 | 116 | #628 | 641 | #196 |
| 1938 | 129 | #603 | 595 | #207 |
| 1937 | 152 | #540 | 620 | #199 |
| 1936 | 144 | #547 | 505 | #224 |
| 1935 | 126 | #574 | 425 | #263 |
| 1934 | 116 | #612 | 403 | #271 |
| 1933 | 103 | #647 | 325 | #293 |
| 1932 | 108 | #643 | 303 | #315 |
| 1931 | 113 | #624 | 237 | #365 |
| 1930 | 106 | #667 | 175 | #445 |
| 1929 | 103 | #691 | 142 | #491 |
| 1928 | 91 | #744 | 123 | #549 |
| 1927 | 92 | #750 | 91 | #671 |
| 1926 | 115 | #680 | 66 | #813 |
| 1925 | 107 | #713 | 66 | #820 |
| 1924 | 112 | #704 | 53 | #967 |
| 1923 | 103 | #718 | 50 | #985 |
| 1922 | 96 | #743 | 54 | #951 |
| 1921 | 91 | #766 | 33 | #1,270 |
| 1920 | 93 | #753 | 44 | #1,051 |
| 1919 | 85 | #763 | 57 | #882 |
| 1918 | 96 | #732 | 33 | #1,216 |
| 1917 | 96 | #703 | 40 | #1,040 |
| 1916 | 67 | #826 | 35 | #1,101 |
| 1915 | 91 | #697 | 42 | #966 |
| 1914 | 76 | #667 | 26 | #1,135 |
| 1913 | 61 | #668 | 31 | #880 |
| 1912 | 58 | #661 | 16 | #1,191 |
| 1911 | 47 | #628 | 10 | #1,135 |
| 1910 | 49 | #593 | 11 | #995 |
| 1909 | 39 | #627 | 9 | #1,041 |
| 1908 | 48 | #528 | 10 | #901 |
| 1907 | 37 | #616 | 6 | #1,231 |
| 1906 | 22 | #777 | 5 | #1,287 |
| 1905 | 44 | #511 | 9 | #855 |
| 1904 | 36 | #561 | 8 | #903 |
| 1903 | 36 | #541 | 9 | #807 |
| 1902 | 29 | #614 | under 5 | |
| 1901 | 40 | #477 | 7 | #877 |
| 1900 | 54 | #459 | 7 | #1,074 |
| 1899 | 31 | #539 | 8 | #800 |
| 1898 | 32 | #573 | under 5 | |
| 1897 | 40 | #463 | 6 | #971 |
| 1896 | 24 | #640 | 11 | #684 |
| 1895 | 41 | #443 | 6 | #1,006 |
| 1894 | 27 | #560 | 7 | #883 |
| 1893 | 23 | #598 | 5 | #1,080 |
| 1892 | 37 | #444 | 7 | #876 |
| 1891 | 19 | #614 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 35 | #432 | under 5 | |
| 1889 | 24 | #518 | 6 | #902 |
| 1888 | 24 | #515 | under 5 | |
| 1887 | 16 | #565 | 7 | #768 |
| 1886 | 14 | #611 | under 5 | |
| 1885 | 21 | #460 | under 5 | |
| 1884 | 11 | #647 | under 5 | |
| 1883 | 17 | #468 | under 5 | |
| 1882 | 18 | #437 | 5 | #971 |
| 1881 | 14 | #454 | under 5 | |
| 1880 | 20 | #368 | 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 Donnie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 68,060 Americans recorded as Donnie, 10% are girls and 90% boys. Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Donnie every year since 1928. In 2025 it went to 89 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Donnie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donnie, and how old are they?
43,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 64% of the 68,060 Americans ever recorded as Donnie. The median Donnie alive today is 64 years old; half are between 50 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 39,556 people named Donnie (2,782 women and girls, 36,774 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 48,582 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 3,240 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 20,700 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 11,300 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,830 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,270 |
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).
Where are babies named Donnie born?
The states with the most babies named Donnie are Texas, North Carolina and Kentucky, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6,466 | #1,953 | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 6,147 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Kentucky | 4,680 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Tennessee | 4,343 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Georgia | 4,276 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Alabama | 3,495 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| South Carolina | 3,117 | #683 | 2.8× |
| Arkansas | 2,623 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Oklahoma | 2,327 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Virginia | 2,312 | #1,134 | 1.5× |
Where Donnie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Donnie is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 3.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Donnie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 82,584 babies since 1880, Donnie is the most given (82% of them). In 2025 it was given to 89 of their 122 babies (73%), again the most given.
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 Donnie
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 Donnie and names like it
- Compare Donnie and DonnyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDonnie peaked in 1952.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donnie since 1910.
- The top names of 1952The year the most babies were named Donnie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Donnie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.