Donnita
Donnita was last recorded in 1994, when 8 babies were given it; 855 Americans have been recorded with it between 1937 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donnita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donnita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,824, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1957, the peak
Donnita peaked in 1957, when 28 girls were given it, #2,078 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 8 | #9,824 | 4.5 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,191 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,575 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,044 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,981 | 3.8 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,675 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,586 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,575 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,010 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,855 | 5.4 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 17 | #4,392 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,339 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,048 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,471 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,118 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,653 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,433 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,536 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,902 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,583 | 19.2 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,432 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,886 | 14.4 |
| 1970 | 23 | #2,957 | 13.2 |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,784 | 13.6 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,354 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,719 | 12.7 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,470 | 14.2 |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,486 | 13.6 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,366 | 14.2 |
| 1963 | 24 | #2,497 | 12.5 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,065 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,422 | 12.4 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,456 | 11.9 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,470 | 10.9 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,783 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,078 | 13.7 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,552 | 10.0 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,127 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,038 | 13.9 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,016 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,425 | 10.2 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,503 | 9.4 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,697 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,764 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,416 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,475 | 9.6 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,277 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,198 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,454 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,897 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,235 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,407 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,485 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,531 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Donnita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Donnita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Donnita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donnita, and how old are they?
An estimated 727 Americans named Donnita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 49 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 711 people named Donnita (710 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 766 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% 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 Donnita?
Donnita is a less common spelling of Donita: SSA has recorded 855 Donnita and 5,189 Donita since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 10,254 babies since 1880, Donnita is the fourth most given (8.3% 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 Donnita
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 Donnita and names like it
- Compare Donnita and DonitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDonnita peaked in 1957.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donnita since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Donnita.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Donnita alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.