Donnetta

Girls' name

Donna with the suffix -etta

Donnetta has been given to 1,521 babies in the U.S. since 1920. 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 1962, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Donnetta, 2005

1 in 549,000

Donnetta over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Donnetta: meaning, origin, and history

Donna with the suffix -etta

coinages

What Donnetta means

Donnetta is formed from Donna with the suffix -etta.

Origin, language, and formation

Donnetta is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Donnetta is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Donna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,521 girls were recorded with the name Donnetta between 1920 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 47 in 1962; its best national rank was #1,655 in 1962.

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 Donnetta?

Donnetta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005: 1 in 549,000; 7 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only: 1 in 264,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 380,664 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Donnetta 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 2005 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 380,664 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Donnetta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Donnettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Donnetta was born before 1967 — so the typical Donnetta is around 58 today.

Median birth year: 1967; About 58 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 26.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 19.5%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 1,301; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 26.2% of all recorded uses (399).

Is Donnetta 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1962 (47)
Years since peak: 63; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,655; 1962

Spellings of Donnetta

Donnetta is not the most common spelling — Concetta is, with 33.1% against Donnetta's 3.6%.

Concetta33.1%14,193
Annetta20.6%8,814
Johnetta7.5%3,201
Doretta6.1%2,597
Dannette5.0%2,155
Donetta4.7%1,994
Donnetta3.6%1,521
Donnette2.8%1,210

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 Donnetta is used

Across 1910–2025, Donnetta was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 460,057 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1District of Columbia1 in 100,000
2California1 in —
3Illinois1 in —
4Indiana1 in —
5Maryland1 in —
6Ohio1 in —
7Texas1 in —
8Virginia1 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. Donnetta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Donnetta 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: #1,655; 1962
Peak year: 1962; 47 that year
First recorded: 1920
Last recorded: 2005
All-time count: 1,521
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Donnetta

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

Donetta Donyetta Donella Donzetta Donnette Donielle Maryetta Donnalee Julietta Louetta Violetta Donatella Donisha Brigitta Nicoletta Donelle Donette Donnell Lovetta Coletta Arletta Donia Donnisha Donnita

Sibling names for Donnetta

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

For a sister

Carmel Tena Jeanetta Patrica Tana Treva Jonna Edie

For a brother

Tod Greggory Mitch Berry Art Chet Toney Cornell

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