Donna Girl
How popular is Donna?
#1,962 girl name in 2025
98 baby girls were named Donna in the US in 2025, making it the 1962nd most popular girl name.
Donna popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,962 for girls (▼ 37 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 98 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-39% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,437 in 2015, #1,545 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1959 (36,468 girls) |
| Highest rank | #5 in 1959 (2 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Donna counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Donna family of names ranked #1,517 for girls in 2025 (#1,481 the year before), with 103 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Donna | 98 | 95% |
| Dona | 5 | 5% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Donna is most popular
Babies named Donna per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Nevada: 0.1 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (84 girls)
- Utah: 0.1 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Texas: 0.1 per 1,000 (55 girls)
- New York: 0.1 per 1,000 (27 girls)
Donna by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 265 | #348 |
| 1890s | 440 | #397 |
| 1900s | 790 | #323 |
| 1910s | 4,293 | #225 |
| 1920s | 26,160 | #47 |
| 1930s | 78,846 | #20 |
| 1940s | 165,523 | #10 |
| 1950s | 270,338 | #5 |
| 1960s | 213,468 | #5 |
| 1970s | 47,342 | #32 |
| 1980s | 13,044 | #144 |
| 1990s | 5,662 | #319 |
| 2000s | 3,186 | #659 |
| 2010s | 1,641 | #983 |
| 2020s | 643 | #1,545 |
Girl names about as popular as Donna
Questions
- Is Donna a boy or girl name?
- Donna is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Donna were girls.
- How popular is the name Donna?
- 98 baby girls were named Donna in the US in 2025, making it the 1962nd most popular girl name.
- When was Donna most popular?
- Donna peaked in 1959, when 36,468 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #5, held for 2 years starting in 1959.
- How many people are named Donna?
- 833,874 babies have been named Donna in the US since 1880. We estimate about 606,787 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 68.
- Where is Donna most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Donna was most common in Nevada, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.