Donna

Where Donna comes from

A 19th-century invention from the Italian noun donna; also interpreted as a feminine form of Donald.
— Wiktionary's entry for Donna
  • Italian
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Donna through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #403 among girls, with 17 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1948
    Donna Summer born
    American singer
  3. 1959
    Donna Strickland born
    Canadian physicist, Nobel laurate
  4. 1959
    Peak, #5
    36,468 babies named Donna, the most in any year.
  5. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #12.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Italian.
Namesakes
  • Donna Strickland · Canadian physicist, Nobel laurate, born 1959
  • Donna Summer · American singer, 1948–2012
  • Donna Tartt · American writer, born 1963
  • Donna Reed · American film and television actress, 1921–1986
  • Donna Haraway · American philosopher, scholar in the field of science and technology studies, born 1944

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.