Donta
Donta was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,806 among boys’ names; 3,990 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,790 Americans named Donta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 26 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Donta mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Donta is “a male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Donta?
#7,806 among boys’ names, 2025
Donta fell from #4,588 in 2015 to #7,806 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 5.9 per million.
147 babies in 1991, the peak
Donta peaked in 1991, when 147 babies were given it (141 boys, #886 among boys’ names). The 10 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,806 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,256 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,866 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,073 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,139 | 14.3 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,456 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 25 | #4,140 | 13.9 |
| 2018 | 26 | #4,018 | 14.3 |
| 2017 | 32 | #3,459 | 17.3 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,075 | 20.0 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,588 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 29 | #3,635 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 38 | #2,966 | 20.1 |
| 2012 | 33 | #3,316 | 17.4 |
| 2011 | 51 | #2,448 | 26.9 |
| 2010 | 44 | #2,748 | 22.9 |
| 2009 | 44 | #2,767 | 22.2 |
| 2008 | 41 | #2,897 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,055 | 32.3 |
| 2006 | 56 | #2,256 | 27.2 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,135 | 28.5 |
| 2004 | 51 | #2,249 | 25.7 |
| 2003 | 62 | #1,889 | 31.4 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,068 | 26.8 |
| 2001 | 67 | #1,715 | 34.5 |
| 2000 | 75 | #1,571 | 38.2 |
| 1999 | 67 | #1,608 | 34.9 |
| 1998 | 94 | #1,278 | 49.2 |
| 1997 | 82 | #1,351 | 43.5 |
| 1996 | 87 | #1,265 | 45.9 |
| 1995 | 77 | #1,337 | 40.4 |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,330 | 39.9 |
| 1993 | 116 | #1,021 | 59.1 |
| 1992 | 124 | #967 | 62.1 |
| 1991 | 141 | #886 | 69.8 |
| 1990 | 130 | #900 | 63.3 |
| 1989 | 129 | #885 | 64.5 |
| 1988 | 126 | #846 | 65.8 |
| 1987 | 92 | #992 | 49.3 |
| 1986 | 111 | #862 | 60.3 |
| 1985 | 103 | #891 | 55.7 |
| 1984 | 112 | #828 | 62.1 |
| 1983 | 110 | #834 | 61.4 |
| 1982 | 103 | #877 | 56.8 |
| 1981 | 97 | #906 | 54.2 |
| 1980 | 103 | #882 | 57.7 |
| 1979 | 100 | #872 | 58.1 |
| 1978 | 120 | #770 | 73.1 |
| 1977 | 110 | #814 | 66.9 |
| 1976 | 77 | #951 | 49.1 |
| 1975 | 97 | #844 | 62.1 |
| 1974 | 85 | #870 | 54.1 |
| 1973 | 71 | #957 | 45.6 |
| 1972 | 50 | #1,157 | 30.8 |
| 1971 | 23 | #1,877 | 13.0 |
| 1970 | 19 | #2,079 | 10.2 |
| 1969 | 20 | #1,877 | 11.2 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,609 | 6.3 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,643 | 5.7 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,099 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,048 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,726 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Donta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,990 Americans recorded as Donta, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 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 Donta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donta, and how old are they?
3,790 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 3,990 Americans ever recorded as Donta. The median Donta alive today is 36 years old; half are between 26 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 2,523 people named Donta (80 women and girls, 2,443 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,752 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 882 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,670 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 926 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 307 |
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 Donta born?
The states with the most babies named Donta are Maryland, California and Illinois, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Maryland is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 305 | not ranked | 4.4× |
| California | 227 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 219 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 171 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 148 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Virginia | 142 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 141 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 116 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 97 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 86 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Donta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Donta is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1964 it was given 4.4 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 Donta 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 32,003 babies since 1880, Donta is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 158 babies (6.3%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Donta
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 Donta and names like it
- Compare Donta and DonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDonta peaked in 1991.
- Maryland’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donta since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Donta: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Donta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Donta alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.