Donyae
Donyae was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,532 among boys’ names; 558 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donyae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donyae?
#12,532 among boys’ names, 2025
Donyae rose from #12,561 in 2015 to #12,532 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 2.9 per million.
42 babies in 2002, the peak
Donyae peaked in 2002, when 42 babies were given it (18 boys, #4,358 among boys’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 5 | #12,532 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 5 | #12,844 | |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,879 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 8 | #9,094 | |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,005 | 6 | #11,134 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,524 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,826 | 5 | #12,709 |
| 2015 | under 5 | 5 | #12,561 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 5 | #12,568 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 5 | #12,634 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | under 5 | 15 | #5,779 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 7 | #9,903 | |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,606 | 5 | #12,772 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 10 | #7,850 | |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,022 | 13 | #6,498 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,901 | 14 | #5,996 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,458 | 17 | #5,134 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,230 | 16 | #5,090 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,171 | 24 | #3,760 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,306 | 14 | #5,339 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,943 | 18 | #4,358 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,337 | 22 | #3,745 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,902 | 11 | #6,016 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,857 | 13 | #5,108 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,815 | 23 | #3,315 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 9 | #6,221 | |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,008 | 21 | #3,314 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,067 | 12 | #4,873 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,825 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,901 | 5 | #9,134 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,721 | 7 | #6,879 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,805 | 5 | #8,476 |
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 Donyae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 558 Americans recorded as Donyae, 42% are girls and 58% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 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 Donyae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donyae, and how old are they?
An estimated 549 Americans named Donyae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 18 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 466 people named Donyae (204 women and girls, 262 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 537 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 69,768 babies since 1880, Donyae is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 94 babies (5.3%), again the second most given.
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 Donyae
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 Donyae and names like it
- Compare Donyae and DonnieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDonyae peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donyae since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Donyae.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Donyae alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.