girls:
62 births since 1951
#5654 (1st percentile)
boys:
6.5k births since 1912
#1460 (68th percentile)
overall:
6.6k births since 1912
#3319 (57th percentile)
The name Donn is the #3,319 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,610 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 57.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,460 (68.2% percentile) for all time with 6,548 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,654 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 62 births since 1951.
Donn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1951 for girls). Birth data for Donn is available in 99 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023 (99 years for boys and 10 years for girls). 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 Donn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Donn reached its peak popularity in 1949, achieving the 42.6% percentile (ranked #337) with 189 births per million. The name was most common in 1949, with 189 births per million (ranked 42.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Donn ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 1.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Donn reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #753) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1978.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Donn".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Donn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Donn is pronounced as dahn, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dawn, at 12.5% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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