Donya
Donya was given to 13 girls in 2025, #7,993 among girls’ names; 2,606 Americans have been recorded with it since 1934 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,460 Americans named Donya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 25 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donya?
#7,993 among girls’ names, 2025
Donya rose from #9,659 in 2015 to #7,993 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 8.1 per million.
100 babies in 1970, the peak
Donya peaked in 1970, when 100 girls were given it, #1,158 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,993 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,369 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,170 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,215 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,238 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,088 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,118 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,084 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,087 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,289 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,659 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,771 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,135 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,955 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,398 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,239 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,164 | 6 | #11,373 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,503 | 10 | #7,840 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,321 | 6 | #11,299 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,944 | 6 | #11,021 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,324 | 11 | #6,751 |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,697 | 7 | #9,187 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,841 | 11 | #6,362 |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,678 | 12 | #5,817 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,969 | 16 | #4,730 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,750 | 6 | #9,419 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,454 | 12 | #5,397 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,591 | 15 | #4,464 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,731 | 6 | #8,429 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,859 | 19 | #3,574 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,245 | 16 | #3,907 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,890 | 12 | #4,869 |
| 1993 | 44 | #2,728 | 8 | #6,373 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,726 | 6 | #7,712 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,733 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,640 | 6 | #7,418 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,697 | 5 | #8,232 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,240 | 7 | #5,935 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,714 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,575 | 5 | #7,015 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,440 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,348 | 7 | #5,118 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,000 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,360 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,086 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 43 | #2,290 | 6 | #5,714 |
| 1979 | 54 | #1,924 | 8 | #4,526 |
| 1978 | 45 | #2,095 | 7 | #4,670 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,268 | 10 | #3,676 |
| 1976 | 57 | #1,705 | 7 | #4,555 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,858 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 60 | #1,586 | 6 | #4,784 |
| 1973 | 63 | #1,499 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 75 | #1,342 | 6 | #4,584 |
| 1971 | 97 | #1,179 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 100 | #1,158 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 82 | #1,236 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 63 | #1,423 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 67 | #1,336 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 50 | #1,590 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 44 | #1,699 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 34 | #2,043 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 35 | #1,987 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 46 | #1,677 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 18 | #2,984 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,120 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,894 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,889 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,000 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,460 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,150 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,299 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,206 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,457 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,514 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,522 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,433 | 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 Donya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,606 Americans recorded as Donya, 90% are girls and 10% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Donya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donya, and how old are they?
2,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 2,606 Americans ever recorded as Donya. The median Donya alive today is 43 years old; half are between 25 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 2,474 people named Donya (2,248 women and girls, 226 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,425 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 8 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 191 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 962 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 487 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 640 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 169 |
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 Donya born?
The states with the most babies named Donya are California, Texas and Georgia, with 72% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 286 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 116 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 13 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 13 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Donya 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 859,238 babies since 1880, Donya is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 121 babies (11%), the second 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 Donya
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 Donya and names like it
- Compare Donya and DonnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDonya peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donya since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Donya.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Donya alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.