Donshae
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Donshae has been given to 40 babies in the U.S. since 1994. 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 1996, with 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 68% girls, 32% boys all-time.
Babies named Donshae, 2007
1 in 800,000
Donshae 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Donshae over time
In 2007, Donshae went to 100% girls and 0% 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 Donshae?
Donshae had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2007
- 1 in 800,000
- 5 of 3,997,748 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 384,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2007
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 554,207 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Donshae sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Donshae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Donshaes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Donshae was born before 1998 — so the typical Donshae is around 27 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 63.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 27
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 63.0% of all recorded uses (17).
Is Donshae 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 1996 (7)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Donshae
Donshae is not the most common spelling — Donisha is, with 46.3% against Donshae's 0.98%.
Donshae around the world
Where Donshae 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 Australia1986–1986#667in 1986
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Donshae by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Donshae
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Donshae
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.