Donta
Last seen for girls in 1993 at #11,780 · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to boys 97.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 120 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,899since 1964
Donta over time
Rank among boys' names. Donta has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #7,679 | 10 | |
| 2024 | — | #6,199 | 14 | |
| 2023 | — | #7,738 | 10 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,019 | 19 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,118 | 25 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,426 | 22 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,114 | 25 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,993 | 26 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,440 | 32 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,059 | 38 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,545 | 21 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,617 | 29 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,955 | 38 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,297 | 33 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,437 | 51 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,730 | 44 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,753 | 44 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,879 | 41 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,051 | 67 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,248 | 56 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,129 | 57 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,238 | 51 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,885 | 62 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,068 | 52 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,710 | 67 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,573 | 75 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,604 | 67 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,280 | 94 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,350 | 82 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,265 | 87 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,338 | 77 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,332 | 77 | |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #1,023 | 116 |
| 1992 | — | #967 | 124 | |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #889 | 141 |
| 1990 | — | #904 | 130 | |
| 1989 | — | #886 | 129 | |
| 1988 | — | #847 | 126 | |
| 1987 | — | #990 | 92 | |
| 1986 | — | #860 | 111 | |
| 1985 | — | #891 | 103 | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #827 | 112 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | #833 | 110 |
| 1982 | — | #876 | 103 | |
| 1981 | — | #906 | 97 | |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #878 | 103 |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | #871 | 100 |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 | #770 | 120 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #814 | 110 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #946 | 77 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | #841 | 97 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | #867 | 85 |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | #957 | 71 |
| 1972 | — | #1,149 | 50 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,862 | 23 | |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | #2,058 | 19 |
| 1969 | — | #1,861 | 20 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,576 | 11 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,611 | 10 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Donta! It came in at #3,601, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1966, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
See more about Donta
- 1,480 spots since 2024 (#6,199 → #7,679)
- 3,253 spots since 2020 (#4,426 → #7,679)
- 3,134 spots since 2015 (#4,545 → #7,679)
- Biggest jump: 192 spots in 1973 (#1,149 → #957)
- Biggest drop: 130 spots in 1987 (#860 → #990)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 1978 at #770 (120 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 24 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 1973–1992
- Highest: 1 in 13,682 boys born in 1978 were named Donta (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 27.9% of all boys named Donta (1,086) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 57 | #1,861 (1969) | #3,088 |
| 1970s | 752 | #770 (1978) | #1,114 |
| 1980s | 1,086 | #827 (1984) | #879 |
| 1990s | 995 | #889 (1991) | #1,195 |
| 2000s | 572 | #1,573 (2000) | #2,153 |
| 2010s | 337 | #2,437 (2011) | #3,419 |
| 2020s | 100 | #4,118 (2021) | #5,863 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Donta in 1983
Top girls' names in 1983
Top boys' names in 1983
More about 1983
girls
1,670,609 girls got a published name in 1983; 1 in 238,658 of them was named Donta, which outranked 33.4% of the 12,074 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,312Yury8
- #7,312Zakiyah8
- #7,312Zephyr8
- #8,047Donta7
- #8,047Abelina7
- #8,047Abria7
- #8,047Achel7
- #9,015Abrielle6
- #9,015Adama6
- #9,015Adebola6
Tied with 967 names at #8,047; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,792,564 boys got a published name in 1983; 1 in 16,296 of them was named Donta, which outranked 88.7% of the 7,344 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.