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Donna
Pronounced /ˈdɒnə/
Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1960 · #865
Origin
Italian
Also recorded for girls:102 in 2024 (#1,941)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- No boys were recorded as Donna in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
- It peaked in 1960 with 78 babies, ranked #865.
- It first shows up in the records in 1924.
- 2,233 boys 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.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0Gen Z1997–12
- 0Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 32 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 629 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,037 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 453 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 82 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 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.