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Donna
Pronounced /ˈdɒnə/
Rank in 2024
#1,941
Born in 2024
102
Peak year
1959 · #5
Origin
Italian
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 102 girls were named Donna, about 1 in every 15,816.
- It peaked in 1959 with 36,469 babies, ranked #5.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 831,536 girls have been named Donna since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Donna per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.1Greatest1901–27
- 8.1Silent1928–45
- 13.8Boomers1946–64
- 4.9Gen X1965–80
- 0.5Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 21,555 babies, 1.05 per 1,000. Silent: 166,604 babies, 8.06 per 1,000. Boomers: 495,454 babies, 13.83 per 1,000. Gen X: 125,073 babies, 4.90 per 1,000. Millennials: 15,470 babies, 0.55 per 1,000. Gen Z: 5,058 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,538 babies, 0.08 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
A 19th-century invention from the Italian noun donna; also interpreted as a feminine form of Donald. ==== Pronunciation ==== (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɒnə/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈdɑnə/, /ˈdänːə/ Rhymes: -ɒnə ==== Proper noun ==== Donna A female given name from Italian. A city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States, named after postmistress Donna Fletcher. ===== Usage notes ===== Popular in the U.S.A. in the 1940s and the 1950s, and in the U.K. in the 1970s and the 1980s. ===== Translations =====
- A female given name from Italian.
- Origin
- Italian
- Say it
- /ˈdɒnə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Donna, CC BY-SA 4.0.