girls:
679 births since 1946
#5037 (12th percentile)
boys:
139 births since 1961
#4447 (3rd percentile)
overall:
818 births since 1946
#6921 (11th percentile)
The name Doni is the #6,921 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 818 recorded births since 1946. This represents the 10.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,037 (11.8% percentile) for all time with 679 births since 1946. For boys, it ranks #4,447 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 139 births since 1961.
Doni first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1946 (1946 for girls and 1961 for boys). Birth data for Doni is available in 53 out of the 73 years between 1946 and 2018 (50 years for girls and 21 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 Doni has been given predominantly to girls, with 83.0% of all recorded births being female. In 2018, 0.0% of babies named Doni were girls.
For girls, Doni reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #744) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2013.
For boys, Doni reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #635) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Doni".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Doni", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 15 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Donnie" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Donnie..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Doni. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.8% confident that Doni is pronounced as DOH-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAH-nee, at 12.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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