How Many People Are Named Dona?
people named Dona are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 36,325 people in the US has this name
Based on 19,032 babies named Dona in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
492 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of DONNA.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Dona in English. Counting Dona and these spellings together, about 603,855 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Dona (99.5%) were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Dona alive today is about 68 years old, and 78% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 61 and 78 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Dona first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1954, to 492 babies. In 2025, 5 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Dona has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #302, in 1933. In 2025 it ranked #15,526.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #15,526 |
| Best rank | #302 (1933) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #459 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Dona alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Dona were born in California than in any other state: about 929 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Dona was given 2.6 times as often in Idaho, 2.5 times in Nebraska and 2.4 times in South Dakota.
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