girls:
97 births since 1988
#5619 (2nd percentile)
boys:
171 births since 1973
#4415 (4th percentile)
overall:
268 births since 1973
#7471 (3rd percentile)
The name Donyea is the #7,471 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 268 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 3.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,415 (3.7% percentile) for all time with 171 births since 1973. For girls, it ranks #5,619 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 97 births since 1988.
Donyea first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for boys and 1988 for girls). Birth data for Donyea is available in 25 out of the 41 years between 1973 and 2013 (22 years for boys and 13 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 Donyea has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (63.8% of all recorded births). In 2013, 100.0% of babies named Donyea were boys.
For boys, Donyea reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #786) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2013.
For girls, Donyea reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #865) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Donyea".
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Our model has identified 16 different pronunciations for the name Donyea. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 21.4% confident that Donyea is pronounced as doh-NYAY, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAH-nyeh-uh, at 14.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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