Meaning not yet researched.
Donya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,158 in 1970.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,158 in 1970; #7,995 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Donya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,995 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1970, at #1,158.
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Donya: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,158 in 1970 · most girls in one year: 100 (1970).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Donya, making it the 7,995th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,379 places from #11,374 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 8 girls named Donya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,158, reached in 1970. That year also had the most girls given the name: 100. For comparison, it was #9,664 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Donya in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #3,580, reached in 1996. That year also had the most boys given the name: 19. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Donya in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1934 with 5 babies. In all, 2,606 US babies have been given the name, 90% of them girls and 10% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 684 babies named Donya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 127 US girls were named Donya; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dona (19,032 babies since 1880) and Donny (12,927 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dunya, Donyea and Duniya 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: Dunya (563), Donyea (268), Duniya (19), Doniyah (16), Donyai (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 Donya 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,995 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,374 | — | — |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,175 | — | — |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,220 | — | — |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,242 | — | — |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,093 | — | — |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,122 | — | — |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,088 | — | — |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,091 | — | — |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,294 | — | — |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,664 | — | — |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,774 | — | — |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,139 | — | — |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,958 | — | — |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,401 | — | — |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,241 | — | — |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,167 | 6 | #11,378 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,507 | 10 | #7,845 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,322 | 6 | #11,305 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,945 | 6 | #11,028 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,328 | 11 | #6,757 |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,701 | 7 | #9,193 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,846 | 11 | #6,369 |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,681 | 12 | #5,824 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,973 | 16 | #4,736 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,755 | 6 | #9,427 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,457 | 12 | #5,403 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,594 | 15 | #4,468 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,734 | 6 | #8,435 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,864 | 19 | #3,580 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,250 | 16 | #3,913 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,895 | 12 | #4,875 |
| 1993 | 44 | #2,733 | 8 | #6,379 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,732 | 6 | #7,719 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,739 | — | — |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,645 | 6 | #7,426 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,703 | 5 | #8,239 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,245 | 7 | #5,941 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,718 | — | — |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,577 | 5 | #7,021 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,441 | — | — |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,349 | 7 | #5,122 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,001 | — | — |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,361 | — | — |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,086 | — | — |
| 1980 | 43 | #2,290 | 6 | #5,716 |
| 1979 | 54 | #1,924 | 8 | #4,528 |
| 1978 | 45 | #2,095 | 7 | #4,673 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,268 | 10 | #3,678 |
| 1976 | 57 | #1,705 | 7 | #4,557 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,858 | — | — |
| 1974 | 60 | #1,586 | 6 | #4,786 |
| 1973 | 63 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 1972 | 75 | #1,342 | 6 | #4,586 |
| 1971 | 97 | #1,179 | — | — |
| 1970 | 100 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 1969 | 82 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 1968 | 63 | #1,423 | — | — |
| 1967 | 67 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 1966 | 50 | #1,590 | — | — |
| 1965 | 44 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 1964 | 34 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 1963 | 35 | #1,988 | — | — |
| 1962 | 46 | #1,678 | — | — |
| 1961 | 18 | #2,985 | — | — |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,121 | — | — |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,895 | — | — |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,890 | — | — |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,001 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,461 | — | — |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,151 | — | — |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,301 | — | — |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,207 | — | — |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,459 | — | — |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,516 | — | — |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,524 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,435 | — | — |
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).