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Donata

The girl's name Donata has been in the national records since 1908, with 551 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2004. About 350 Donatas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 61.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Donata

By the numbers

Total US births
551
Estimated living today
350
Median age today
61
Peak year
1956
Best rank
2,622nd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1908

How old the living Donatas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 551 babies given the name since 1908, about 350 are alive — 63 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1964 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Donatas

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

Where Donata is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1956

The most popular girls’ names the year Donata peaked:

All the names of 1956

Donata elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Poland girls Donata 173 birth registrations 175th
France girls Donata 55 1,688th
England and Wales girls Donata 3 5,876th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Donata among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Donata 6 12

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Donata lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 219 women called Donata were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Donata 14 0.025 2,578
Ciudad Real Donata 6 0.024 1,481
Valladolid Donata 5 0.018 1,934
Bizkaia Donata 11 0.018 2,186
Gipuzkoa Donata 6 0.016 2,342
Jaén Donata 5 0.016 1,582

Listed in 13 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 39 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Donata against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.