girls:
117 births since 1926
#5599 (2nd percentile)
boys:
80 births since 1933
#4506 (2nd percentile)
overall:
197 births since 1926
#7542 (3rd percentile)
The name Donne is the #7,542 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 197 recorded births since 1926. This represents the 2.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,599 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 117 births since 1926. For boys, it ranks #4,506 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 80 births since 1933.
Donne first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1926 (1926 for girls and 1933 for boys). Birth data for Donne is available in 22 out of the 50 years between 1926 and 1975 (18 years for girls and 13 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 Donne has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (59.4% of all recorded births). In 1975, 54.5% of babies named Donne were girls.
For girls, Donne reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #762) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1975.
For boys, Donne reached its peak popularity in 1950, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #597) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1938, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1975.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Donne".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Donne. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.1% confident that Donne is pronounced as dahn, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is duhn, at 30.6% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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