Girls' name · peaked in 1933
Dona name popularity since 1925
16,229 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Dona (99.1% girls, 0.9% boys). Half of them were born in 1948 or earlier, so the typical Dona is about 78 years old in 2026. Dona peaked in 1933 as the #302 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.
Key facts
- US babies since 1925
- 16,229
- Named Dona, 1925–2025
- Peak year
- 1933
- #302 for girls that year
- In 2025
- Not top 1,000
- #15,531 for girls in 2025
- Girls / boys
- 99.1% girls
- 16,089 girls · 140 boys
- Most popular in
- Kansas
- 2.70× its national share
Peak year is the year Dona made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.
Dona births per year, 1925–2025
The biggest year by count was 1954. Measured as a share of all babies, Dona peaked in 1933.
- Fastest rise: Between 1925 and 1930, Dona became 2× more common.
- Steepest fall: Between 1966 and 1971, its share of baby girls fell by 41%, from 1 in 8,420 to 1 in 14,200.
Shaded on the chart. Both compare Dona's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Dona.
Decade by decade
Babies named Dona in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).
| Decade | Girls | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925–29 | 1,620 | 35 | – |
| 1930s | 3,418 | 45 | #373 |
| 1940s | 3,420 | 15 | #419 |
| 1950s | 3,910 | 33 | #437 |
| 1960s | 2,247 | 7 | #703 |
| 1970s | 792 | 0 | #1,630 |
| 1980s | 323 | 5 | #2,961 |
| 1990s | 187 | 0 | #6,756 |
| 2000s | 97 | 0 | #15,013 |
| 2010s | 57 | 0 | Under 5 |
| 2020–25 | 18 | 0 | #15,531 |
Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.
Generation fingerprint
41.9% of babies named Dona from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Baby Boom years (1946–1964). The full split by generation:
Where Dona is most popular
The index compares Dona's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Dona.
| State | Index | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 2.70× | 357 |
| Oklahoma | 2.20× | 372 |
| Iowa | 1.97× | 325 |
| Wisconsin | 1.81× | 462 |
| Minnesota | 1.62× | 384 |
Other spellings
Spellings that sound like Dona and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.
| Spelling | Girls | Peak year |
|---|---|---|
| Dona (this page) | 16,089 | 1933 |
| Donna | 818,731 | 1959 |
Names with a similar story
Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Dona's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Dona.
Names from the same era
Other common names that peaked within two years of Dona (1933).
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data