Donita
Donita is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 673rd, in 1953.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1962199 births
- Best rank
- #673in 1953
- Since 1915
- 5,189people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,189 girls have been named Donita in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 199 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 199 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1961, and the 1950s alone account for 30%. It has spent 21 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Donita | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 10 | |
| 1920s | 95 | |
| 1930s | 249 | |
| 1940s | 530 | |
| 1950s | 1,563 | |
| 1960s | 1,321 | |
| 1970s | 827 | |
| 1980s | 421 | |
| 1990s | 148 | |
| 2000s | 25 |
In 1962, its biggest year
Donita was the 735th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1962 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Linda. See all of 1962.
Names that rose and fell with Donita
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jeripeak 1957
- Coleenpeak 1959
- Nildapeak 1957
- Lynellpeak 1971
- Jeanniepeak 1957
- Maribethpeak 1957
- Marlapeak 1955
- Cathleenpeak 1958
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.