How rare is the name Donny?

10,205 people in the United States have the first name Donny, about 1 in 29,596. It ranks #2,432 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

DONNY

#2,432

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
10,205
About
1 in 29,596
This common or more
79.8%
Who bears it

Of the 10,205 people named Donny, 63.6% reported their origin as White, 12.5% as Black and 10.9% as Hispanic or Latino. 98.8% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Donny peaked in 1977, when 432 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19272025
Peak year
1977
Births that year
432
In 2025*
28 ▼94%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 12,927 babies have been given the name since 1927. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Donny by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1950s, when it ranked #1,000. The largest share of babies named Donny, 38.4%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1920s#10,44218
1930s#2,150376
1940s#1,1541,413
1950s#1,0002,620
1960s#1,1282,441
1970s#1,0822,779
1980s#1,7271,491
1990s#3,453686
2000s#4,885576
2010s#7,167352
2020s#8,064175
Greatest Generation 1901–270.1%
Silent Generation 1928–457.6%
Baby boom 1946–6438.4%
Generation X 1965–8030.6%
Millennials 1981–9613.6%
Generation Z 1997–126.5%
2013 and later3.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Donny is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Donny has been most common in Arkansas (4.3×), Alabama (3.3×), and Tennessee (3.2×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.07×).

9,156 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 Donny

#2,430 Josefa · 10,221#2,431 Royal · 10,220#2,433 Eugenio · 10,199#2,434 Cristopher · 10,195

Spelled almost the same

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

#63 Donna · 635,065#3,893 Donn · 5,036#22,540 Donne · 441#24,232 Donni · 399#26,650 Dony · 348#41,689 Donney · 175

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