How popular is “Donnie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Donnie” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Donnie” 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 “Donnie” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Donnie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Donnie” 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	20	0.000099263	20		100%
1881	14	0.000072656	14		100%
1882	23	0.000103822	18	5	57%
1883	17	0.000078361	17		100%
1884	11	0.000045182	11		100%
1885	21	0.00008719	21		100%
1886	14	0.000054834	14		100%
1887	23	0.00009297	16	7	39%
1888	24	0.000080141	24		100%
1889	30	0.000103826	24	6	60%
1890	35	0.000116124	35		100%
1891	19	0.000066278	19		100%
1892	44	0.000131589	37	7	68%
1893	28	0.000086095	23	5	64%
1894	34	0.000100387	27	7	59%
1895	47	0.000133896	41	6	74%
1896	35	0.000097906	24	11	37%
1897	46	0.000132581	40	6	74%
1898	32	0.000083889	32		100%
1899	39	0.000114965	31	8	59%
1900	61	0.000135478	54	7	77%
1901	47	0.000135912	40	7	70%
1902	29	0.000074987	29		100%
1903	45	0.000118048	36	9	60%
1904	44	0.00010905	36	8	64%
1905	53	0.000125023	44	9	66%
1906	27	0.000063018	22	5	63%
1907	43	0.000092396	37	6	72%
1908	58	0.000118695	48	10	66%
1909	48	0.000093892	39	9	63%
1910	60	0.000101573	49	11	63%
1911	57	0.000088471	47	10	65%
1912	74	0.000074894	58	16	57%
1913	92	0.000080907	61	31	33%
1914	102	0.000072016	76	26	49%
1915	133	0.000072581	91	42	37%
1916	102	0.000052729	67	35	31%
1917	136	0.000067771	96	40	41%
1918	129	0.000059417	96	33	49%
1919	142	0.000067291	85	57	20%
1920	137	0.000060549	93	44	36%
1921	124	0.000053116	91	33	47%
1922	150	0.000065526	96	54	28%
1923	153	0.00006645	103	50	35%
1924	165	0.000069281	112	53	36%
1925	173	0.000074144	107	66	24%
1926	181	0.000078836	115	66	27%
1927	183	0.000078901	92	91	1%
1928	214	0.000094651	91	123	-15%
1929	245	0.000111762	103	142	-16%
1930	281	0.000126389	106	175	-25%
1931	350	0.000166319	113	237	-35%
1932	411	0.000194668	108	303	-47%
1933	428	0.000214059	103	325	-52%
1934	519	0.000249902	116	403	-55%
1935	551	0.000263649	126	425	-54%
1936	649	0.000312383	144	505	-56%
1937	772	0.000362327	152	620	-61%
1938	724	0.000327221	129	595	-64%
1939	756	0.0003431	116	640	-69%
1940	790	0.000343078	115	675	-71%
1941	934	0.000383349	148	786	-68%
1942	965	0.000353245	128	837	-73%
1943	1074	0.000380506	154	920	-71%
1944	1112	0.000413371	129	983	-77%
1945	1109	0.000418032	118	991	-79%
1946	1406	0.00044002	131	1275	-81%
1947	1541	0.00042778	122	1419	-84%
1948	1620	0.000469223	138	1482	-83%
1949	1741	0.000499602	122	1619	-86%
1950	1818	0.000518931	94	1724	-90%
1951	1835	0.000498135	103	1732	-89%
1952	1913	0.000503686	107	1806	-89%
1953	1902	0.000493559	113	1789	-88%
1954	1874	0.000470771	105	1769	-89%
1955	1765	0.000439593	92	1673	-90%
1956	1823	0.00044215	100	1723	-89%
1957	1797	0.000427639	80	1717	-91%
1958	1694	0.000409782	96	1598	-89%
1959	1710	0.000411256	70	1640	-92%
1960	1638	0.000394336	74	1564	-91%
1961	1470	0.000354875	92	1378	-87%
1962	1364	0.000338011	60	1304	-91%
1963	1211	0.000305947	57	1154	-91%
1964	1157	0.000297613	50	1107	-91%
1965	1012	0.000279138	40	972	-92%
1966	925	0.000266137	54	871	-88%
1967	881	0.000259507	45	836	-90%
1968	905	0.000267877	31	874	-93%
1969	867	0.000249473	37	830	-91%
1970	955	0.000264799	42	913	-91%
1971	921	0.000268329	29	892	-94%
1972	890	0.00028317	29	861	-93%
1973	826	0.000273792	40	786	-90%
1974	785	0.000258224	26	759	-93%
1975	765	0.000253362	26	739	-93%
1976	728	0.000239924	25	703	-93%
1977	665	0.00020935	24	641	-93%
1978	609	0.000191879	14	595	-95%
1979	597	0.000179441	18	579	-94%
1980	569	0.000165191	18	551	-94%
1981	499	0.000144246	22	477	-91%
1982	456	0.00012999	16	440	-93%
1983	436	0.00012589	11	425	-95%
1984	389	0.000111501	6	383	-97%
1985	355	0.000099465	16	339	-91%
1986	318	0.000089399	6	312	-96%
1987	339	0.00009402	10	329	-94%
1988	305	0.000082543	8	297	-95%
1989	281	0.000073092	9	272	-94%
1990	348	0.000088046	9	339	-95%
1991	275	0.000070599	5	270	-96%
1992	264	0.000068727	6	258	-95%
1993	251	0.000066573	11	240	-91%
1994	210	0.000056487	12	198	-89%
1995	190	0.000051882	10	180	-89%
1996	185	0.000050724	6	179	-94%
1997	183	0.000050472		183	-100%
1998	194	0.000052743	9	185	-91%
1999	173	0.000046834	8	165	-91%
2000	160	0.000042329		160	-100%
2001	149	0.000039803	5	144	-93%
2002	142	0.000037985		142	-100%
2003	153	0.000040239		153	-100%
2004	139	0.000036379	8	131	-88%
2005	129	0.000033551		129	-100%
2006	141	0.00003564	7	134	-90%
2007	144	0.000036021		144	-100%
2008	132	0.000033582		132	-100%
2009	122	0.000031936		122	-100%
2010	130	0.000035176		130	-100%
2011	109	0.000029799	5	104	-91%
2012	116	0.000031717		116	-100%
2013	108	0.000029624		108	-100%
2014	132	0.000035614	5	127	-92%
2015	120	0.000032424		120	-100%
2016	113	0.000030801		113	-100%
2017	106	0.00002964	5	101	-91%
2018	79	0.000022469		79	-100%
2019	81	0.000023337		81	-100%
2020	82	0.000024547		82	-100%
2021	94	0.000027745		94	-100%
2022	92	0.000027194		92	-100%
2023	87	0.000026274	6	81	-86%
2024	93	0.000027941		93	-100%

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