Donae
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Donae has been given to 203 babies in the U.S. since 1976. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2004, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Donae, 2016
1 in 734,000
Donae over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Donae?
Donae had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 734,000
- 5 of 3,669,531 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 354,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 508,706 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Donae sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Donae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Donaes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Donae was born before 1999 — so the typical Donae is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 40.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 81.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 197
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 40.6% of all recorded uses (80).
Is Donae rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2004 (15)
- Years since peak
- 21
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.7% average annual change
Spellings of Donae
Donae is not the most common spelling — Donna is, with 56.5% against Donae's 0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Donae around the world
Where Donae ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2004–2004#4,598in 2004
- South Australia1978–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Donae by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Donae
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Donae
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.