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Donnette

Girls' name

Donna with the suffix -ette

Donnette has been given to 1,210 babies in the U.S. since 1931. 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 1963, with 48 recorded.

Babies named Donnette, 1996

1 in 608,000

Donnette over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Donnette: meaning, origin, and history

Donna with the suffix -ette

coinages

What Donnette means

Donnette is formed from Donna with the suffix -ette.

Origin, language, and formation

Donnette is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Donnette is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Donna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,210 girls were recorded with the name Donnette between 1931 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 48 in 1963; its best national rank was #1,527 in 1947.

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 Donnette?

Donnette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1996
1 in 608,000
6 of 3,646,048 births
Among girls only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1996
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,209 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Donnette 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 1996 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 421,209 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Donnette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Donnettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Donnette was born before 1963 — so the typical Donnette is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
34.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,012
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1960s — 34.4% of all recorded uses (416).

Is Donnette 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1963 (48)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,527
1947

Spellings of Donnette

Donnette is not the most common spelling — Annette is, with 73.7% against Donnette's 0.53%.

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 Donnette is used

Across 1910–2025, Donnette was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 825,904 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Iowa1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Nebraska1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Donnette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Donnette around the world

Where Donnette 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
    1972–1972
    #722
    in 1972

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

Donnette 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
#1,527
1947
Peak year
1963
48 that year
First recorded
1931
Last recorded
1996
All-time count
1,210
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Donnette

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

DonetteDonellaElliotteDonnaleeDonnettaEllietteOlivetteDonielleAmoretteDonatellaElietteDonishaDonelleSharlotteEveretteDonnellDonnishaCozetteDoniaRosetteDonnitaNinetteDonyelleDonzella

Sibling names for Donnette

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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