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Donat

Boys' name

Form of Donatus

Donat has been given to 351 babies in the U.S. since 1894. 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 1918, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Donat, 1966

1 in 579,000

Donat over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Donat: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Donatus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Donat means

Donat is a form of Donatus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Donat is used in Polish and French (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈdɔ.nat/ and /dɔ.na/ for Donat.

Origin, language, and formation

Donat is used in Albanian, Old Czech and Serbo-Croatian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Donatus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old Czech, Donat is pronounced /ˈdonat/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 351 boys were recorded with the name Donat between 1894 and 1966. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1918; its best national rank was #983 in 1894.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Donat?

Donat had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1966, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1966
1 in 579,000
6 of 3,475,564 births
Among boys only
1 in 297,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1966
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
401,514 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Donat sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1966 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 401,514 children born in 1966 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Donat. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Donats were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Donat was born before 1924 — so the typical Donat is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
36.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
29
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Choose a decade

1920s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (127).

Is Donat 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 1918 (22)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#983
1894

Spellings of Donat

Donat is not the most common spelling — Donald is, with 76.6% against Donat's 0.02%.

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.

Where Donat is used

Across 1910–2025, Donat was most concentrated in Rhode Island — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 97,547 across all states with data. It was least common in Maine (1 in 100,000).

13 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Rhode Island1 in 33,333
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  3. 3Maine1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Donat has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Donat around the world

Where Donat 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 & Wales
    1998–1998
    #2,901
    in 1998
  • France
    1900–2025
    #5,485
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Donat by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#983
1894
Peak year
1918
22 that year
First recorded
1894
Last recorded
1966
All-time count
351
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Donat

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Donat

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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