Donie
Donie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 449th, in 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 189525 births
- Best rank
- #449in 1885
- Since 1880
- 1,087people given the name
The story in the numbers
956 girls have been named Donie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1895, with 25 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 25 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1910, and the 1890s alone account for 19%. It has spent 23 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 131 boys have also been given it, 12% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1895, its biggest year
Donie was the 611th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1895 were Mary, Anna, Helen, Margaret and Elizabeth. See all of 1895.
Names that rose and fell with Donie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mathildapeak 1918
- Maymepeak 1915
- Besspeak 1889
- Pearlepeak 1919
- Ettiepeak 1891
- Huldapeak 1895
- Myrtiepeak 1917
- Nellepeak 1917
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.