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Donta

#7,806 in 2025Boys' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Donta has been given to 3,990 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #7,806 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 141 recorded.

Babies named Donta, 2025

1 in 332,000

Donta over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Donta: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

coinages

What Donta means

Donta is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Donta is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Donta is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,899 boys were recorded with the name Donta between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 141 in 1991; its best national rank was #770 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,456 in 2020 to #7,806 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,588 in 2015 to #7,806 in 2025.

In the United States, 91 girls were recorded with the name Donta between 1970 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1975; its best national rank was #6,094 in 1975.

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 Donta?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,806
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Donta 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 2025 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Donta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dontas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Donta was born before 1990 — so the typical Donta is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
27.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,899
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1980s — 27.9% of all recorded uses (1,086).

Is Donta 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
−1,550
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,350
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,218
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.48×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.1%
Peak was 1991 (141)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#770
1978

Spellings of Donta

Donta is not the most common spelling — Don is, with 41.7% against Donta's 0.97%.

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 Donta is used

Across 1910–2025, Donta was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 68,711 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 8,333
  2. 2Virginia1 in 25,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 33,333
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 33,333
  5. 5District of Columbia1 in 50,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 50,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 50,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 50,000

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

Donta around the world

Where Donta 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.

  • England & Wales
    2013–2013
    #4,685
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1998–1998
    #534
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Donta

People whose public names include Donta, 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.

Donta by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,806
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,350
Best rank ever
#770
1978
Peak year
1991
141 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,899
Count in 2025
10

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,094
1975
Peak year
1975
9 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
91
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Donta

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

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Names with a curve like Donta

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

SharifToreyJarretDemetrisJoryBrannonJameelJeredDejuanAmitDerikRamone

Sibling names for Donta

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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