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 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 34,041 of them was named Donya, which outranked 81.8% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,050Terese46
- #2,050Yessenia46
- #2,050Zoraida46
- #2,092Donya45
- #2,092Aiesha45
- #2,092Aziza45
- #2,092China45
- #2,125Ashly44
- #2,125Azure44
- #2,125Bonny44
Tied with 32 names at #2,092; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 234,548 of them was named Donya, which outranked 32.7% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,157Zac8
- #4,157Zalmen8
- #4,157Zebulen8
- #4,554Donya7
- #4,554Abasi7
- #4,554Abdallah7
- #4,554Absalom7
- #5,059Aamir6
- #5,059Aaren6
- #5,059Abdel6
Tied with 504 names at #4,554; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.