Donita

Where Donita comes from

Donita 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. 1915
    First appearance
    #4,274 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1953
    Peak, #673
    179 babies named Donita — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1963
    Donita Sparks born
    American singer and guitarist
  4. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,254.
  5. 1974
    Donita Rose born
    Filipino-American comedian
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Donita Sparks · American singer and guitarist, born 1963
  • Donita Rose · Filipino-American comedian, born 1974
  • Donita Dunes · American pornographic actress, born 1966

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.