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Donie

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Diminutive of Donal or Syndonia

Donie has been given to 1,087 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1895, with 25 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 88% girls, 12% boys all-time.

Babies named Donie, 1975

1 in 503,000

Donie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Donie over time

In 1990, Donie went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Donie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Donal or Syndonia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Donie means

Donie is a diminutive of Donal or Syndonia.

Origin, language, and formation

Donie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Donal and Syndonia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 956 girls were recorded with the name Donie between 1880 and 1975. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1895; its best national rank was #449 in 1885.

In the United States, 131 boys were recorded with the name Donie between 1921 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1957; its best national rank was #2,525 in 1957.

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 Donie?

Donie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1975, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1975
1 in 503,000
6 of 3,019,126 births
Among girls only
1 in 243,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1975
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
348,784 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Donie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1975 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 348,784 children born in 1975 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Donie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Donies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Donie was born before 1910 — so the typical Donie is around 115 today.

Median birth year
1910
About 115 years old
Biggest decade
1890s
19.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
78
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1890s — 19.5% of all recorded uses (186).

Is Donie 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 1895 (25)
Years since peak
130
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#449
1885

Spellings of Donie

Donie is not the most common spelling — Donna is, with 23.5% against Donie's 0.03%.

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 Donie is used

Across 1910–2025, Donie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 898,380 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Donie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Donie around the world

Where Donie 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.

  • Ireland
    2021–2025
    #829
    in 2025

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.

Donie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#449
1885
Peak year
1895
25 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1975
All-time count
956
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,525
1957
Peak year
1957
11 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
131
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Donie

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

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Sibling names for Donie

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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