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Donya

#7,993 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Donya has been given to 2,606 babies in the U.S. since 1934. In 2025 it ranked #7,993 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1970, with 100 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.

Babies named Donya, 2025

1 in 255,000

Donya over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Donya over time

In 2025, Donya went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19342025

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.

Donya: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Donya means

Donya is a given name.

The naming story behind Donya

Wikidata records Donya as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q86873188, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,341 girls were recorded with the name Donya between 1934 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 100 in 1970; its best national rank was #1,158 in 1970.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,088 in 2020 to #7,993 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,659 in 2015 to #7,993 in 2025.

In the United States, 265 boys were recorded with the name Donya between 1972 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1996; its best national rank was #3,574 in 1996.

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.

How common is Donya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,993
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Donya 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 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Donya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Donyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Donya was born before 1979 — so the typical Donya is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
27.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,314
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 27.3% of all recorded uses (640).

Is Donya 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
+3,376
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+95
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,666
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.18×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.0%
Peak was 1970 (100)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,158
1970

Spellings of Donya

Donya is not the most common spelling — Donna is, with 41.3% against Donya's 0.12%.

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 Donya is used

Across 1910–2025, Donya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 189,600 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Arkansas1 in —
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Indiana1 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. Donya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Donya around the world

Where Donya 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
    1996–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1988–1988
    #511
    in 1988
  • France
    1971–2025
    #4,119
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1958–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Donya

People whose public names include Donya, 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.

Donya in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Donya. Linked forms have their own page here.

DonaDoniaDunya

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Donya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,993
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 95
Best rank ever
#1,158
1970
Peak year
1970
100 that year
First recorded
1934
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,341
Count in 2025
13

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,574
1996
Peak year
1996
19 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
265
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Donya

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

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Names with a curve like Donya

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

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Sibling names for Donya

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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