Donnis — unisex name

What the Data Says About Donnis

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,046 babies named Donnis between 1912 and 1981, spanning 70 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Donnis currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1981. The name reached its historical peak in 1948, when 42 babies received it in a single year. Donnis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 466 additional births since 1920.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Donnis performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 288 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Donnis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 43 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Donnis in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Donnis in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,046 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.