girls:
18.8k births since 1880
#1075 (81st percentile)
boys:
175 births since 1910
#4411 (4th percentile)
overall:
19k births since 1880
#1862 (76th percentile)
The name Dona is the #1,862 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19,021 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 75.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,075 (81.2% percentile) for all time with 18,846 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,411 (3.8% percentile) for all time with 175 births since 1910.
Dona has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1910 for boys). Birth data for Dona is available in 137 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (137 years for girls and 26 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Dona has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Dona reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 50.5% percentile (ranked #284) with 393 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 393 births per million (ranked 50.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Dona ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 1.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Dona reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #536) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 24 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1982.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dona".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Dona. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Dona is pronounced as DOH-nuh, which has 2 syllables.
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