girls:
40 births since 1957
#5676 (1st percentile)
boys:
12.8k births since 1927
#1022 (78th percentile)
overall:
12.9k births since 1927
#2321 (70th percentile)
The name Donny is the #2,321 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,867 recorded births since 1927. This represents the 70.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,022 (77.7% percentile) for all time with 12,827 births since 1927. For girls, it ranks #5,676 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 40 births since 1957.
Donny first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1927 (1927 for boys and 1957 for girls).
The name Donny has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Donny reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 48.0% percentile (ranked #351) with 249 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 254 births per million (ranked 46.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Donny ranks #890 for boys (2.3% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 5.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Donny reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #766) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1981.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Donny".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Donny", 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 Donny. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.1% confident that Donny is pronounced as DAH-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAW-nee, at 15.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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