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Donato

#6,549 in 2025Boys' name

Given

Donato has been given to 3,126 babies in the U.S. since 1890. In 2025 it ranked #6,549 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1926, with 54 recorded.

Babies named Donato, 2025

1 in 255,000

Donato over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Donato: meaning, origin, and history

Given

Latin

What Donato means

Donato means “given”.

Origin, language, and formation

Donato is used in Italian and Portuguese. Its origins include Latin.

Donato comes through Latin donātus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Donatus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Donato is pronounced /doˈna.to/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,126 boys were recorded with the name Donato between 1890 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 54 in 1926; its best national rank was #918 in 1926.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,845 in 2020 to #6,549 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,807 in 2015 to #6,549 in 2025.

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 Donato?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,549
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Donato 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 2025 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Donato. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Donatos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Donato was born before 1966 — so the typical Donato is around 59 today.

Median birth year
1966
About 59 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
12.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,008
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Choose a decade

1920s — 12.9% of all recorded uses (403).

Is Donato 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
−829
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,704
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,742
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.46×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.1%
Peak was 1926 (54)
Years since peak
99
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#918
1926

Spellings of Donato

Donato is not the most common spelling — Donald is, with 97.6% against Donato's 0.22%.

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 Donato is used

Across 1910–2025, Donato was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 59,036 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 20,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 100,000
  6. 6Connecticut1 in —
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 in —

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. Donato has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Donato around the world

Where Donato 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
    1997–2007
    #2,741
    in 2007
  • France
    1923–2025
    #6,615
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #2,570
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1948–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Donato

People whose public names include Donato, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Donato in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Donato. Linked forms have their own page here.

DonatDonátDonatus

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Donato by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,549
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,704
Best rank ever
#918
1926
Peak year
1926
54 that year
First recorded
1890
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,126
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Donato

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

DontayDonellDondreDontaeDontaDonavinDontezDonavonRenatoDontrellDonavenDonivanDonavanDontreDonzellDonielDonovinDonnyDonalDonyaeDonnellDonnaDonteDonavyn

Names with a curve like Donato

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Donato, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

GennaroCelestinoGerritElginFlorencioAnselmoArmondRuebenLovellTrinidadEusebioAnastacio

Sibling names for Donato

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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