Donna · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Donna.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1924

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 67 recorded years as a table

Donna, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1924	9
1925	4
1926	7
1927	8
1928	13
1929	16
1930	19
1931	23
1932	31
1933	31
1934	35
1935	31
1936	35
1937	36
1938	30
1939	29
1940	41
1941	38
1942	36
1943	29
1944	37
1945	34
1946	33
1947	24
1948	26
1949	25
1950	21
1951	18
1952	18
1953	26
1954	22
1955	27
1956	30
1957	27
1958	25
1959	33
1960	37
1961	36
1962	34
1963	33
1964	26
1965	27
1966	27
1967	31
1968	27
1969	16
1970	19
1971	19
1972	25
1973	13
1974	14
1975	11
1976	8
1977	7
1978	9
1979	6
1980	3
1981	5
1982	6
1983	6
1984	3
1985	3
1986	4
1988	6
1989	4
1990	4
1993	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Donna isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

More like Donna

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 1993: 6
Rank in 1993: #7,638
How rare: 1 in 326,888 boys
Since 1924: 2,233

Donna was last recorded in 1993. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1940, at 41 per million boys born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Donna doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.