Meaning not yet researched.
Dona: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #302 in 1933.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #302 in 1933; #15,531 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dona in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#15,531 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1933, at #302.
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Dona: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #302 in 1933 · most girls in one year: 487 (1954).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Dona, making it the 15,531st most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,584 places from #13,947 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 6 girls named Dona in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #302, reached in 1933. The most girls given the name in a single year was 487, in 1954. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #411 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dona in 139 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 18 babies. In all, 19,032 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 3,943 babies named Dona.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 33 US girls were named Dona; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 8. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Donna (833,874 babies since 1880) and Donya (2,606 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Donalda and Adona are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Donalda (623), Adona (57).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Dona in the open dataset we use.
Dona is listed as a nickname for Donna.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,531 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,947 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,484 | — | — |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,089 | — | — |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,079 | — | — |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,243 | — | — |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,477 | — | — |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,643 | — | — |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,868 | — | — |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,111 | — | — |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,937 | — | — |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,062 | — | — |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,703 | — | — |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,013 | — | — |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,432 | — | — |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,128 | — | — |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,463 | — | — |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,706 | — | — |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,020 | — | — |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,996 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,818 | — | — |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,468 | — | — |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,269 | — | — |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,756 | — | — |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,520 | — | — |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,741 | — | — |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,894 | — | — |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,746 | — | — |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,736 | — | — |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,423 | — | — |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,327 | — | — |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,545 | — | — |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,669 | — | — |
| 1985 | 31 | #2,961 | — | — |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,166 | — | — |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,731 | — | — |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,462 | 5 | #6,621 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,864 | — | — |
| 1980 | 56 | #1,917 | — | — |
| 1979 | 44 | #2,221 | — | — |
| 1978 | 48 | #1,993 | — | — |
| 1977 | 54 | #1,863 | — | — |
| 1976 | 50 | #1,846 | — | — |
| 1975 | 60 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 1974 | 74 | #1,391 | — | — |
| 1973 | 93 | #1,171 | — | — |
| 1972 | 101 | #1,105 | — | — |
| 1971 | 117 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1970 | 151 | #880 | — | — |
| 1969 | 153 | #838 | — | — |
| 1968 | 151 | #827 | — | — |
| 1967 | 173 | #748 | — | — |
| 1966 | 201 | #690 | — | — |
| 1965 | 197 | #703 | — | — |
| 1964 | 248 | #649 | — | — |
| 1963 | 243 | #647 | 7 | #3,408 |
| 1962 | 281 | #593 | — | — |
| 1961 | 290 | #591 | — | — |
| 1960 | 310 | #555 | — | — |
| 1959 | 343 | #524 | 6 | #3,705 |
| 1958 | 331 | #532 | — | — |
| 1957 | 342 | #516 | 6 | #3,666 |
| 1956 | 420 | #448 | 7 | #3,286 |
| 1955 | 418 | #437 | — | — |
| 1954 | 487 | #391 | 5 | #3,967 |
| 1953 | 404 | #438 | — | — |
| 1952 | 369 | #447 | — | — |
| 1951 | 418 | #405 | 9 | #2,716 |
| 1950 | 378 | #411 | — | — |
| 1949 | 344 | #424 | — | — |
| 1948 | 370 | #412 | 5 | #3,807 |
| 1947 | 389 | #409 | 5 | #3,868 |
| 1946 | 359 | #402 | — | — |
| 1945 | 289 | #419 | — | — |
| 1944 | 354 | #375 | 5 | #3,553 |
| 1943 | 397 | #361 | — | — |
| 1942 | 354 | #379 | — | — |
| 1941 | 297 | #398 | — | — |
| 1940 | 267 | #420 | — | — |
| 1939 | 259 | #422 | — | — |
| 1938 | 287 | #395 | 5 | #3,655 |
| 1937 | 286 | #383 | 6 | #3,255 |
| 1936 | 303 | #362 | — | — |
| 1935 | 287 | #373 | — | — |
| 1934 | 348 | #339 | 5 | #3,810 |
| 1933 | 411 | #302 | 6 | #3,363 |
| 1932 | 425 | #306 | 5 | #3,910 |
| 1931 | 411 | #316 | 10 | #2,518 |
| 1930 | 401 | #329 | 8 | #3,092 |
| 1929 | 363 | #340 | — | — |
| 1928 | 381 | #346 | 12 | #2,426 |
| 1927 | 376 | #345 | 10 | #2,752 |
| 1926 | 288 | #403 | 7 | #3,470 |
| 1925 | 212 | #480 | 6 | #3,853 |
| 1924 | 179 | #541 | — | — |
| 1923 | 181 | #524 | 7 | #3,557 |
| 1922 | 161 | #565 | — | — |
| 1921 | 135 | #637 | 9 | #3,042 |
| 1920 | 114 | #680 | — | — |
| 1919 | 102 | #695 | 8 | #3,178 |
| 1918 | 115 | #662 | 6 | #3,835 |
| 1917 | 107 | #658 | — | — |
| 1916 | 104 | #669 | — | — |
| 1915 | 79 | #748 | — | — |
| 1914 | 62 | #728 | — | — |
| 1913 | 49 | #752 | — | — |
| 1912 | 51 | #707 | — | — |
| 1911 | 47 | #627 | — | — |
| 1910 | 41 | #665 | 5 | #1,655 |
| 1909 | 40 | #616 | — | — |
| 1908 | 32 | #682 | — | — |
| 1907 | 44 | #546 | — | — |
| 1906 | 38 | #571 | — | — |
| 1905 | 51 | #476 | — | — |
| 1904 | 50 | #466 | — | — |
| 1903 | 37 | #532 | — | — |
| 1902 | 60 | #400 | — | — |
| 1901 | 45 | #442 | — | — |
| 1900 | 46 | #499 | — | — |
| 1899 | 43 | #444 | — | — |
| 1898 | 59 | #403 | — | — |
| 1897 | 46 | #432 | — | — |
| 1896 | 35 | #500 | — | — |
| 1895 | 44 | #426 | — | — |
| 1894 | 45 | #416 | — | — |
| 1893 | 36 | #440 | — | — |
| 1892 | 52 | #371 | — | — |
| 1891 | 47 | #362 | — | — |
| 1890 | 52 | #354 | — | — |
| 1889 | 44 | #363 | — | — |
| 1888 | 46 | #349 | — | — |
| 1887 | 41 | #334 | — | — |
| 1886 | 31 | #388 | — | — |
| 1885 | 43 | #306 | — | — |
| 1884 | 34 | #337 | — | — |
| 1883 | 30 | #325 | — | — |
| 1882 | 28 | #337 | — | — |
| 1881 | 24 | #327 | — | — |
| 1880 | 18 | #391 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).