Donie

Where Donie comes from

The dictionaries list Donie as a given name — a diminutive of the male given name Donal — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1885
    Peak, #446
    22 babies named Donie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1887
    Donie Bush born
    American baseball player
  4. 1902
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,219.
  5. 1945
    Donie Cassidy born
    Irish politician and businessman
  6. 1990
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Donal.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Syndonia.
Namesakes
  • Donie Bush · American baseball player, 1887–1972
  • Donie Cassidy · Irish politician and businessman, born 1945

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.