Donato

7,191 people in the United States were counted with the surname Donato in the 2020 census, making it the 4,771st most common in the country. That is about one person in 41,600.

By the numbers

People: 7,191
Rank: 4,771st
How common: 1 in 41,600
Per 100,000: 2.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Italian

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Donato described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 67.8%
Hispanic or Latino 19.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 7.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 2.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Donato

Fabrizio Donato (born 1976)Italian triple jumper and long jumper
Leonardo Donato (1536–1612)Doge of Venice
Nicolò Donato (1539–1618)Doge of Venice
Francesco Donato (1468–1553)Doge of Venice from 1545 to 1553
Magda Donato (1898–1966)Spanish writer and actress
Ryan Donato (born 1996)American ice hockey player
Edgardo Donato (1897–1963)Argentine composer
João Donato (1934–2023)Brazilian musician

People named Donato with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Donato

Also a first name

Donato has been given to 3,126 American babies as a first name since 1890, peaking in 1926. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.