Meaning not yet researched.
Dondi: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,083 in 1965.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US boys were given it in 2025. It peaked at #1,083 in 1965. No US babies were recorded with the name Dondi in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US boys in 2025; it peaked at #1,083 in 1965.
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Dondi: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,083 in 1965 · most boys in one year: 50 (1961).
Fewer than five US boys were named Dondi in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #1,083, reached in 1965. The most boys given the name in a single year was 50, in 1961. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Dondi in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #2,261, reached in 1968. That year also had the most girls given the name: 29. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dondi in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 26 babies. In all, 1,141 US babies have been given the name, 33% of them girls and 67% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 532 babies named Dondi.
In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US boys named Dondi.
Rarer spellings such as Dondee and Dondie 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dondee (20), Dondie (5).
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 Dondi in the open dataset we use.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | — | — | 6 | #9,703 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #8,095 |
| 1998 | — | — | 9 | #6,459 |
| 1997 | — | — | 8 | #6,786 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,084 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #7,898 |
| 1992 | — | — | 10 | #5,345 |
| 1990 | — | — | 8 | #5,993 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,229 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,639 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,200 | 6 | #6,326 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #4,986 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,116 | 8 | #4,821 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,445 | 9 | #4,295 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,484 | 10 | #3,949 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,931 | 5 | #6,622 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,339 | 10 | #3,923 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,599 | 9 | #4,233 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,266 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,534 | 6 | #5,250 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,480 | 17 | #2,585 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,312 | 19 | #2,359 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,413 | 24 | #1,964 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,343 | 15 | #2,583 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,520 | 14 | #2,633 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,869 | 16 | #2,352 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,749 | 37 | #1,402 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,464 | 30 | #1,553 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,229 | 29 | #1,505 |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,261 | 36 | #1,261 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,238 | 37 | #1,235 |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,958 | 32 | #1,352 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,588 | 47 | #1,083 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,932 | 32 | #1,388 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,499 | 35 | #1,326 |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,477 | 48 | #1,111 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,870 | 50 | #1,109 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,260 | 17 | #1,994 |
| 1959 | — | — | 15 | #2,139 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,336 | 23 | #1,653 |
| 1957 | — | — | 32 | #1,398 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,958 | 19 | #1,846 |
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).