Donyea
Donyea was last recorded in 2013, when 7 babies were given it; 268 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donyea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donyea?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,922, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1998, the peak
Donyea peaked in 1998, when 28 babies were given it (14 boys, #4,709 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | under 5 | 7 | #9,922 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 5 | #12,986 | |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,014 | 7 | #10,043 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,899 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 8 | #8,332 | |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,781 | 8 | #8,045 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,418 | 12 | #5,818 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,922 | 11 | #6,130 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,115 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,816 | 14 | #4,709 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 | #14,373 | 8 | #6,781 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,891 | 7 | #7,339 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,196 | 10 | #5,601 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 8 | #6,516 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,891 | 6 | #7,713 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,577 | 6 | #7,532 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 7 | #6,608 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,234 | |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,331 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 6 | #5,991 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 7 | #5,173 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #5,715 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 7 | #4,456 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 7 | #4,299 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 9 | #3,516 |
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 Donyea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 268 Americans recorded as Donyea, 36% are girls and 64% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Donyea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donyea, and how old are they?
An estimated 259 Americans named Donyea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 24 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 303 people named Donyea (130 women and girls, 173 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 262 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,302 babies since 1880, Donyea is the third most given (21% of them).
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.
More about Donyea and names like it
- Compare Donyea and DonyaeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDonyea peaked in 1998.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Donyea.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Donyea alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.