Dona

Where Dona comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Dona.

  • Vowel-ended
Dona through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #388 among girls, with 18 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1914
    Dona Drake born
    actress, singer, dancer
  3. 1933
    Peak, #301
    411 babies named Dona, its best rank.
  4. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #703.
  5. 1976
    Dona Ganguly born
    Indian dancer
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Sedona.
Namesakes
  • Dona Drake · actress, singer, dancer, 1914–1989
  • Dona Ganguly · Indian dancer, born 1976
  • Dona Bailey · American video game programmer, born 1955
  • Dona Zica · Brazilian samba dancer, 1913–2003
  • Dona Bertarelli · Swiss businesswoman, heiress and billionaire, born 1968

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.