Donne
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Donne has been given to 196 babies in the U.S. since 1926. 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 1957, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 59% girls, 41% boys all-time.
Babies named Donne, 1975
1 in 604,000
Donne 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Donne over time
In 1975, Donne went to 50% girls and 50% boys.
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.
How common is Donne?
Donne 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 604,000
- 5 of 3,019,126 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 292,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1975
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 418,541 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Donne sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 418,541 children born in 1975 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Donne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Donnes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Donne was born before 1958 — so the typical Donne is around 67 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 39.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 72.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 89
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 39.7% of all recorded uses (46).
Is Donne 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1957 (11)
- Years since peak
- 68
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.6% average annual change
Spellings of Donne
Donne is not the most common spelling — Donna is, with 27.2% against Donne'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.
Donne by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Donne
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Donne
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.