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Donn

Boys' name

Noble, prince

Donn has been given to 6,615 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1949, with 341 recorded.

Babies named Donn, 2024

1 in 669,000

Donn over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Donn: meaning, origin, and history

Noble, prince

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Donn means

Donn means “noble, prince”, associated with donn.

Origin, language, and formation

Donn is used in Irish.

Donn comes through Proto-Indo-European *dʰus-no-.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,553 boys were recorded with the name Donn between 1912 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 341 in 1949; its best national rank was #366 in 1949.

In the United States, 62 girls were recorded with the name Donn between 1951 and 1978. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1978; its best national rank was #5,310 in 1960.

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 Donn?

Donn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Donn 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Donn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Donns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Donn was born before 1951 — so the typical Donn is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,616
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1950s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (1,822).

Is Donn 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 1949 (341)
Years since peak
76
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#366
1949

Spellings of Donn

Donn is not the most common spelling — John is, with 74.8% against Donn's 0.09%.

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 Donn is used

Across 1910–2025, Donn was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 36,939 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 12,500
  2. 2Hawaii1 in 16,667
  3. 3Ohio1 in 16,667
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 16,667
  5. 5North Dakota1 in 20,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 20,000
  7. 7California1 in 25,000
  8. 8Iowa1 in 25,000

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

Donn around the world

Where Donn 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.

  • South Australia
    1947–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Donn

People whose public names include Donn, 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.

Donn 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
#366
1949
Peak year
1949
341 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
6,553
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,310
1960
Peak year
1978
8 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
1978
All-time count
62
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Donn

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

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Names with a curve like Donn

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

ValJerroldGlynnDannieDwainGaylonDennieCurtissJeroldFredricLawranceHal

Sibling names for Donn

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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