Donny
Donny is a boy's name that peaked in 1977, when it was the 378th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 3,848th. About 10,000 Donnys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 52.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Donny boys named Donny
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 12,927
- Estimated living today
- 10,000
- Median age today
- 52
- Peak year
- 1977
- Best rank
- 378th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,848th
- First recorded
- 1927
- Girls / boys
- 40 / 12,887
How old the living Donnys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 12,927 babies given the name since 1927, about 10,000 are alive — 79 in every hundred. Roughly 610 of them are children and 2,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1973 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.
Where the name comes from
Diminutive forms with -y.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Donnys
- Donny van de Beek (born 1997)Dutch association football player
- Donny Osmond (born 1957)American singer, dancer, actor, television host
- Donny Hathaway (1945–1979)American singer-songwriter and musician
- Donny Robinson (born 1983)American bicycle cross rider
- Donny Gorter (born 1988)Dutch footballer
People named Donny with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Donny is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Donny is most concentrated in Arkansas (4.3×), Alabama (3.3×), Tennessee (3.2×), Texas (2.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1977
The most popular boys’ names the year Donny peaked:
Donny elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Donny | 251 | 1,108th |
| France boys | Donny | 50 | 4,756th |
| Scotland boys | Donny | 9 | 296th |
| Ireland boys | Donny | 3 | 755th |
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.
Donny 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Donny | 1,884 | 2,009 |
| the Netherlands girls | Donny | 8 | 17 |
| Finland boys | Donny | 7 | 8 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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.
Related names
Donny against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.