Donato

Where Donato comes from

Donato hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1443
    Donato Bramante born
    Italian architect and painter
  2. 1890
    First appearance
    #994 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1926
    Peak, #916
    54 babies named Donato — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1932
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,465.
  5. 1962
    Donato Gama da Silveira born
    Spanish/Brazilian footballer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Donato Bramante · Italian architect and painter, 1443–1514
  • Donato Gama da Silveira · Spanish/Brazilian footballer, born 1962
  • Donato Carrisi · Italian writer, screenwriter, and film director, born 1973
  • Donato Sabia · Italian middle distance runner, 1963–2020
  • Donato Bilancia · Italian serial killer, 1951–2020

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.