How rare is the name Donita?

4,241 people in the United States have the first name Donita, about 1 in 71,217. It ranks #4,421 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

DONITA

#4,421

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,241
About
1 in 71,217
This common or more
84%
Who bears it

Of the 4,241 people named Donita, 69.1% reported their origin as White, 23% as Black and 3.2% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Donita peaked in 1962, when 199 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19152009
Peak year
1962
Births that year
199
In 2009
5 ▼97%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,189 babies have been given the name since 1915. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Donita by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1950s, when it ranked #1,339. The largest share of babies named Donita, 50.6%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1910s#10,10610
1920s#5,51495
1930s#2,717249
1940s#1,984530
1950s#1,3391,563
1960s#1,5621,321
1970s#2,176827
1980s#3,846421
1990s#9,984148
2000s#30,91325
Greatest Generation 1901–271.4%
Silent Generation 1928–459.8%
Baby boom 1946–6450.6%
Generation X 1965–8028.1%
Millennials 1981–969.1%
Generation Z 1997–120.9%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Donita is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Donita has been most common in Kansas (7.2×), Oklahoma (5.2×), and Iowa (4.9×), and least common in New York (0.2×).

2,386 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Donita

#4,419 Demario · 4,244#4,420 Jeanmarie · 4,242#4,422 Gricelda · 4,240#4,423 Linette · 4,238

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Donita, most common first.

#6,382 Donta · 2,523#15,129 Donata · 766#15,999 Donnita · 711#41,133 Doneta · 179

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