How popular is “Donna” in the USA?

Number of people named “Donna” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Donna” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Donna” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Donna” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Donna” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Donna” by birth year

This chart shows how “Donna” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	17	0.000084374	17		100%
1881	15	0.000077846	15		100%
1882	19	0.000085766	19		100%
1883	21	0.000096798	21		100%
1884	22	0.000090364	22		100%
1885	26	0.000107949	26		100%
1886	29	0.000113585	29		100%
1887	38	0.000153602	38		100%
1888	37	0.00012355	37		100%
1889	41	0.000141895	41		100%
1890	33	0.000109489	33		100%
1891	37	0.000129067	37		100%
1892	43	0.000128599	43		100%
1893	42	0.000129142	42		100%
1894	44	0.000129912	44		100%
1895	44	0.000125349	44		100%
1896	40	0.000111893	40		100%
1897	53	0.000152757	53		100%
1898	52	0.00013632	52		100%
1899	52	0.000153287	52		100%
1900	79	0.000175455	79		100%
1901	53	0.000153262	53		100%
1902	55	0.000142217	55		100%
1903	78	0.000204617	78		100%
1904	61	0.000151183	61		100%
1905	59	0.000139177	59		100%
1906	84	0.000196055	84		100%
1907	100	0.000214874	100		100%
1908	98	0.000200553	98		100%
1909	123	0.000240599	123		100%
1910	107	0.000181138	107		100%
1911	149	0.000231267	149		100%
1912	227	0.000229743	227		100%
1913	266	0.000233926	266		100%
1914	283	0.00019981	283		100%
1915	483	0.000263585	483		100%
1916	606	0.000313273	606		100%
1917	652	0.000324903	652		100%
1918	746	0.000343603	746		100%
1919	774	0.000366782	774		100%
1920	959	0.000423841	959		100%
1921	1111	0.000475904	1111		100%
1922	1349	0.0005893	1349		100%
1923	1578	0.000685348	1578		100%
1924	2135	0.000896452	2125	10	99%
1925	2434	0.001043157	2429	5	100%
1926	3016	0.001313643	3008	8	99%
1927	4001	0.001725046	3992	9	100%
1928	4484	0.001983248	4470	14	99%
1929	5156	0.002352017	5139	17	99%
1930	5999	0.002698256	5978	21	99%
1931	6624	0.003147708	6600	24	99%
1932	7394	0.003502123	7362	32	99%
1933	7391	0.003696522	7360	31	99%
1934	7906	0.003806789	7870	36	99%
1935	7825	0.003744198	7793	32	99%
1936	7968	0.003835235	7932	36	99%
1937	8925	0.004188823	8887	38	99%
1938	9726	0.004395785	9693	33	99%
1939	9403	0.004267415	9371	32	99%
1940	9279	0.004029644	9232	47	99%
1941	10493	0.00430672	10446	47	99%
1942	13036	0.004771914	12986	50	99%
1943	14956	0.005298738	14914	42	99%
1944	15224	0.005659313	15173	51	99%
1945	15444	0.005821532	15398	46	99%
1946	19821	0.00620316	19767	54	99%
1947	23562	0.006540781	23518	44	100%
1948	22079	0.006395043	22033	46	100%
1949	22101	0.006342158	22056	45	100%
1950	21666	0.006184352	21629	37	100%
1951	24108	0.006544438	24075	33	100%
1952	23751	0.006253546	23716	35	100%
1953	24278	0.006300011	24226	52	100%
1954	27473	0.006901536	27428	45	100%
1955	27996	0.006972713	27941	55	100%
1956	29915	0.007255574	29852	63	100%
1957	28101	0.006687302	28042	59	100%
1958	27009	0.006533533	26955	54	100%
1959	36540	0.008787896	36469	71	100%
1960	34216	0.008237247	34138	78	100%
1961	28750	0.006940587	28674	76	99%
1962	25793	0.006391728	25722	71	99%
1963	25474	0.006435754	25406	68	99%
1964	23858	0.00613694	23807	51	100%
1965	19751	0.005447877	19700	51	99%
1966	17086	0.004915908	17037	49	99%
1967	14841	0.004371561	14787	54	99%
1968	12796	0.003787577	12749	47	99%
1969	11476	0.003302139	11447	29	99%
1970	10004	0.00277387	9969	35	99%
1971	8048	0.002344746	8014	34	99%
1972	6296	0.002003185	6256	40	99%
1973	5078	0.001683192	5058	20	99%
1974	4376	0.001439474	4354	22	99%
1975	3439	0.00113897	3422	17	99%
1976	3045	0.001003526	3032	13	99%
1977	2593	0.000816309	2581	12	99%
1978	2474	0.00077949	2459	15	99%
1979	2209	0.000663962	2199	10	99%
1980	2014	0.000584699	2009	5	100%
1981	1709	0.00049402	1700	9	99%
1982	1541	0.000439286	1530	11	99%
1983	1389	0.000401058	1378	11	98%
1984	1186	0.000339949	1181	5	99%
1985	1196	0.000335098	1191	5	99%
1986	999	0.000280849	992	7	99%
1987	1031	0.000285943	1031		100%
1988	1052	0.000284706	1040	12	98%
1989	1000	0.000260115	992	8	98%
1990	869	0.000219862	861	8	98%
1991	739	0.000189718	739		100%
1992	680	0.000177025	680		100%
1993	587	0.000155691	581	6	98%
1994	662	0.000178069	662		100%
1995	492	0.000134347	492		100%
1996	420	0.000115157	420		100%
1997	422	0.00011639	422		100%
1998	433	0.00011772	433		100%
1999	373	0.000100978	373		100%
2000	370	0.000097886	370		100%
2001	355	0.000094834	355		100%
2002	376	0.000100581	376		100%
2003	323	0.000084948	323		100%
2004	331	0.000086628	331		100%
2005	305	0.000079327	305		100%
2006	325	0.00008215	325		100%
2007	261	0.000065288	261		100%
2008	277	0.000070472	277		100%
2009	262	0.000068583	262		100%
2010	258	0.00006981	258		100%
2011	199	0.000054404	199		100%
2012	188	0.000051403	188		100%
2013	176	0.000048276	176		100%
2014	162	0.000043708	162		100%
2015	160	0.000043233	160		100%
2016	118	0.000032164	118		100%
2017	124	0.000034674	124		100%
2018	139	0.000039535	139		100%
2019	116	0.00003342	116		100%
2020	136	0.000040712	136		100%
2021	105	0.000030992	105		100%
2022	101	0.000029854	101		100%
2023	99	0.000029899	99		100%
2024	102	0.000030644	102		100%

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