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Dona vs Donnald

American parents have registered 19,032 Donas since 1880, against 386 Donnalds. Dona is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dona against Donnald, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dona Donnald

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Dona has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1981, when Dona had 31 and Donnald had 7.

Side by side

  Dona Donnald
Total US births 19,032386
Most in one year 49220
Babies in 2025 5under 5
Estimated living today 9,400250
Median age today 7067
Peak year 19541954
Best rank 391st girls1,706th boys
Rank in 2025 14,942ndunranked
First recorded 18801929
Girls / boys 18,857 / 1750 / 386

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Donas alive today are over 70; half the Donnalds are over 67. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dona and Donnald.