Meaning not yet researched.
Donny: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #378 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #378 in 1977; #3,872 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Donny in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,872 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #378.
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Donny: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 boys in 2025. Peak: #378 in 1977 · most boys in one year: 426 (1977).
In 2025, 28 US boys were named Donny, making it the 3,872nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 154 places from #3,718 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 30 boys named Donny in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #378, reached in 1977. That year also had the most boys given the name: 426. For comparison, it was #2,984 in 2015 and #454 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Donny in 99 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1927 with 7 babies. In all, 12,927 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 2,779 babies named Donny.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 295 US boys were named Donny; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,003 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Donald (1,420,387 babies since 1880), Don (168,839 babies since 1880), Donnie (68,060 babies since 1880) and Donya (2,606 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dony, Doniya and Doney 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: Dony (22), Doniya (13), Doney (10).
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 Donny in the open dataset we use.
Donny is listed as a nickname for Don, Donald, Donovan.
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 | — | — | 28 | #3,872 |
| 2024 | — | — | 30 | #3,718 |
| 2023 | — | — | 27 | #4,036 |
| 2022 | — | — | 34 | #3,427 |
| 2021 | — | — | 28 | #3,838 |
| 2020 | — | — | 28 | #3,747 |
| 2019 | — | — | 30 | #3,655 |
| 2018 | — | — | 26 | #4,021 |
| 2017 | — | — | 28 | #3,801 |
| 2016 | — | — | 36 | #3,176 |
| 2015 | — | — | 39 | #2,984 |
| 2014 | — | — | 42 | #2,820 |
| 2013 | — | — | 42 | #2,779 |
| 2012 | — | — | 39 | #2,970 |
| 2011 | — | — | 35 | #3,185 |
| 2010 | — | — | 35 | #3,191 |
| 2009 | — | — | 29 | #3,658 |
| 2008 | — | — | 59 | #2,244 |
| 2007 | — | — | 61 | #2,194 |
| 2006 | — | — | 58 | #2,209 |
| 2005 | — | — | 49 | #2,378 |
| 2004 | — | — | 56 | #2,107 |
| 2003 | — | — | 49 | #2,214 |
| 2002 | — | — | 69 | #1,695 |
| 2001 | — | — | 72 | #1,634 |
| 2000 | — | — | 74 | #1,589 |
| 1999 | — | — | 68 | #1,595 |
| 1998 | — | — | 53 | #1,853 |
| 1997 | — | — | 40 | #2,179 |
| 1996 | — | — | 57 | #1,676 |
| 1995 | — | — | 59 | #1,578 |
| 1994 | — | — | 57 | #1,616 |
| 1993 | — | — | 70 | #1,385 |
| 1992 | — | — | 77 | #1,291 |
| 1991 | — | — | 90 | #1,164 |
| 1990 | — | — | 115 | #982 |
| 1989 | — | — | 98 | #1,047 |
| 1988 | — | — | 100 | #964 |
| 1987 | — | — | 105 | #922 |
| 1986 | — | — | 102 | #905 |
| 1985 | — | — | 113 | #845 |
| 1984 | — | — | 132 | #753 |
| 1983 | — | — | 146 | #709 |
| 1982 | — | — | 202 | #602 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,415 | 230 | #565 |
| 1980 | — | — | 257 | #536 |
| 1979 | — | — | 259 | #526 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,172 | 303 | #460 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,733 | 426 | #378 |
| 1976 | — | — | 413 | #378 |
| 1975 | — | — | 252 | #503 |
| 1974 | — | — | 231 | #520 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,682 | 269 | #479 |
| 1972 | — | — | 237 | #512 |
| 1971 | — | — | 222 | #536 |
| 1970 | — | — | 150 | #668 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,773 | 165 | #610 |
| 1968 | — | — | 177 | #570 |
| 1967 | — | — | 191 | #540 |
| 1966 | — | — | 196 | #548 |
| 1965 | — | — | 181 | #569 |
| 1964 | — | — | 286 | #467 |
| 1963 | — | — | 271 | #486 |
| 1962 | — | — | 299 | #462 |
| 1961 | — | — | 312 | #456 |
| 1960 | — | — | 358 | #420 |
| 1959 | — | — | 349 | #428 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,339 | 284 | #466 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,033 | 273 | #467 |
| 1956 | — | — | 224 | #505 |
| 1955 | — | — | 279 | #446 |
| 1954 | — | — | 280 | #430 |
| 1953 | — | — | 249 | #453 |
| 1952 | — | — | 237 | #458 |
| 1951 | — | — | 222 | #455 |
| 1950 | — | — | 211 | #454 |
| 1949 | — | — | 239 | #433 |
| 1948 | — | — | 216 | #452 |
| 1947 | — | — | 192 | #484 |
| 1946 | — | — | 165 | #504 |
| 1945 | — | — | 112 | #572 |
| 1944 | — | — | 130 | #532 |
| 1943 | — | — | 111 | #600 |
| 1942 | — | — | 95 | #663 |
| 1941 | — | — | 79 | #691 |
| 1940 | — | — | 74 | #703 |
| 1939 | — | — | 68 | #727 |
| 1938 | — | — | 63 | #771 |
| 1937 | — | — | 49 | #882 |
| 1936 | — | — | 38 | #1,032 |
| 1935 | — | — | 37 | #1,062 |
| 1934 | — | — | 36 | #1,105 |
| 1933 | — | — | 28 | #1,256 |
| 1932 | — | — | 23 | #1,480 |
| 1931 | — | — | 18 | #1,717 |
| 1930 | — | — | 16 | #1,910 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,662 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,301 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,546 |
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).