Donya
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births · Last seen for boys in 2009 at #10,994
Given to girls 89.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1970 · 100 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,341since 1934
Donya over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #7,885 | 13 | — | |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 | — | |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | — | |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 | — | |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | — | |
| 2019 | #7,025 | 16 | — | |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 | — | |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | — | |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | — | |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | — | |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 | — | |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 | — | |
| 2012 | #5,895 | 22 | — | |
| 2011 | #6,335 | 20 | — | |
| 2010 | #6,182 | 21 | — | |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #7,408 | 17 | #7,698 | 10 |
| 2007 | #4,299 | 35 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #3,919 | 38 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #3,317 | 46 | #6,634 | 11 |
| 2004 | #3,689 | 39 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #4,804 | 26 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | #2,673 | 57 | #5,725 | 12 |
| 2001 | #2,963 | 48 | #4,676 | 16 |
| 2000 | #3,738 | 34 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #3,443 | 36 | #5,317 | 12 |
| 1998 | #3,573 | 33 | #4,413 | 15 |
| 1997 | #3,716 | 30 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #3,831 | 28 | #3,549 | 19 |
| 1995 | #4,217 | 24 | #3,854 | 16 |
| 1994 | #4,845 | 20 | #4,803 | 12 |
| 1993 | #2,725 | 44 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #4,686 | 21 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #5,659 | 16 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,623 | 29 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #3,673 | 27 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #3,225 | 30 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #4,660 | 17 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,554 | 24 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #3,419 | 25 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,329 | 25 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #2,975 | 28 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,344 | 25 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,066 | 28 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,278 | 43 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #1,917 | 54 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | #2,092 | 45 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #2,257 | 40 | #3,606 | 10 |
| 1976 | #1,694 | 57 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #1,854 | 49 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,578 | 60 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #1,496 | 63 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,337 | 75 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #1,176 | 97 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,154 | 100 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,234 | 82 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,418 | 63 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,336 | 67 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,586 | 50 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,689 | 44 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,040 | 34 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,981 | 35 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,672 | 46 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,957 | 18 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,095 | 16 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,869 | 17 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,862 | 17 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,069 | 9 | — | |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 | — | |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 | — | |
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| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 | — | |
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| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 | — | |
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| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 | — | |
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| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Donya! It came in at #4,286, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1934–1938, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Donya
- 3,237 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #7,885)
- 84 spots since 2020 (#7,969 → #7,885)
- 1,596 spots since 2015 (#9,481 → #7,885)
- Debuted 1934
- Peaked 1970 at #1,154 (100 births)
- Births halved by 1975, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,153 girls born in 1971 were named Donya (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,154 in 1970, was only 1 in 17,481 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.3% of all girls named Donya (640) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 12 | #3,429 (1939) | #3,858 |
| 1940s | 15 | #3,444 (1942) | #3,895 |
| 1950s | 71 | #2,862 (1958) | #4,178 |
| 1960s | 455 | #1,234 (1969) | #1,901 |
| 1970s | 640 | #1,154 (1970) | #1,656 |
| 1980s | 272 | #2,278 (1980) | #3,352 |
| 1990s | 281 | #2,725 (1993) | #4,032 |
| 2000s | 362 | #2,673 (2002) | #4,290 |
| 2010s | 156 | #5,895 (2012) | #8,118 |
| 2020s | 77 | #6,174 (2021) | #8,377 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Donya in 1967
Top girls' names in 1967
More about 1967
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1,651,025 girls got a published name in 1967; 1 in 24,642 of them was named Donya, which outranked 83.0% of the 7,852 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,324Millette68
- #1,324Sharyl68
- #1,324Tessie68
- #1,336Donya67
- #1,336Felice67
- #1,336Gilda67
- #1,336Glynis67
- #1,348Beckie66
- #1,348Catalina66
- #1,348Chantel66
Tied with 11 names at #1,336; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.