Donye — boys' name

What the Data Says About Donye

The Social Security Administration has registered 284 babies named Donye between 1978 and 2023, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Donye currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 26 babies received it in a single year. Donye is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 86 additional births since 1992.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Donye performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 160 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Donye shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Donye in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Donye 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 284 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.