Donya — #11171 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Donya

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,328 babies named Donya between 1934 and 2024, spanning 91 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Donya currently holds the #11171 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 100 babies received it in a single year. Donya is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 265 additional births since 1972.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Donya performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 640 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Donya shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 286 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Donya in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Donya 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 2,328 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.