Donnis
Donnis was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 1,512 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donnis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donnis?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,412, in 1981; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
59 babies in 1948, the peak
Donnis peaked in 1948, when 59 babies were given it (42 girls, #1,424 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | under 5 | 5 | #12,706 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 5 | #12,840 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 6 | #11,369 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 6 | #9,417 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 6 | #7,526 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 5 | #6,815 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #5,770 | |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,412 | 6 | #5,686 |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #5,712 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 7 | #4,983 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 5 | #10,029 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,423 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,262 | 11 | #3,294 |
| 1974 | under 5 | 6 | #4,783 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 10 | #3,208 | |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,887 | 11 | #3,015 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,914 | 8 | #3,596 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,847 | 6 | #4,073 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,869 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,103 | 7 | #3,336 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,990 | 8 | #3,054 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,005 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,162 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,081 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,326 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,014 | 6 | #3,754 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,250 | 11 | #2,575 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,783 | 14 | #2,223 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,686 | 9 | #2,882 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,062 | 7 | #3,326 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,270 | 9 | #2,842 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,864 | 9 | #2,820 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,198 | 12 | #2,346 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,847 | 22 | #1,643 |
| 1952 | 31 | #1,791 | 19 | #1,762 |
| 1951 | 25 | #1,975 | 13 | #2,159 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,969 | 13 | #2,130 |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,930 | 10 | #2,493 |
| 1948 | 42 | #1,424 | 17 | #1,835 |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,730 | 12 | #2,274 |
| 1946 | 34 | #1,514 | 8 | #2,754 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,497 | 7 | #2,816 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,712 | 12 | #2,104 |
| 1943 | 33 | #1,443 | 9 | #2,602 |
| 1942 | 37 | #1,327 | 9 | #2,570 |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,707 | 12 | #2,113 |
| 1940 | 27 | #1,486 | 13 | #2,013 |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,557 | 9 | #2,501 |
| 1938 | 31 | #1,321 | 9 | #2,522 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,648 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | 33 | #1,248 | 11 | #2,213 |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,123 | 8 | #2,764 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,451 | 6 | #3,382 |
| 1933 | 26 | #1,448 | 6 | #3,365 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,702 | 8 | #2,910 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,036 | 8 | #2,910 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,764 | 6 | #3,686 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,604 | under 5 | |
| 1928 | 18 | #2,033 | 5 | #4,298 |
| 1927 | 21 | #1,901 | 7 | #3,544 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,282 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,954 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,745 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,619 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,008 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,752 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,520 | 5 | #4,464 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,392 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,220 | under 5 | |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,088 | under 5 | |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,744 | under 5 | |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,441 | 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 Donnis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,512 Americans recorded as Donnis, 69% are girls and 31% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Donnis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donnis, and how old are they?
An estimated 772 Americans named Donnis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 61 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 987 people named Donnis (638 women and girls, 349 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 926 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,238 babies since 1880, Donnis is the most given (68% 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 Donnis
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 Donnis and names like it
- Compare Donnis and DonisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sDonnis peaked in 1948.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donnis since 1910.
- The top names of 1948The year the most babies were named Donnis.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Donnis alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.