girls:
7.1k births since 1880
#1933 (66th percentile)
boys:
60.7k births since 1882
#432 (91st percentile)
overall:
67.9k births since 1880
#887 (89th percentile)
The name Donnie is the #887 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 67,876 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 88.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #432 (90.6% percentile) for all time with 60,744 births since 1882. For girls, it ranks #1,933 (66.2% percentile) for all time with 7,132 births since 1880.
Donnie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1882 for boys).
The name Donnie has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 93.1% of babies named Donnie were boys. Interestingly, until around 1930, the name was more popular for girls (69.1% girls from 1880 to 1929), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (92.9% boys from 1930 to 2023).
For boys, Donnie reached its peak popularity in 1951, achieving the 75.8% percentile (ranked #148) with 906 births per million. The name was most common in 1950, with 947 births per million (ranked 75.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Donnie ranks #835 for boys (8.4% percentile) with 44 births per million, which is 4.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Donnie reached its peak popularity in 1937, achieving the 24.4% percentile (ranked #440) with 138 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 205 births per million (ranked 7.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Donnie ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 1.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Donnie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Donnie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.9% confident that Donnie is pronounced as DAH-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAW-nee, at 11.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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