Donetta
Recorded 1919–2002 · United States
Donetta was most popular in 1956, when 65 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,124 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,994 people named Donetta.
Donetta over time
How old is the name Donetta?
Donetta first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1919, which makes it about 106 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 78 of the 107 years since. It was last recorded in 2002.
How many people are named Donetta?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,994 American births named Donetta between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,559 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Donetta in 2025?
Donetta was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Donetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Donetta is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 1,994 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Donetta?
Roughly 1,559 Americans named Donetta are alive today — 78% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 62 years old, and half are between 52 and 71.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Donetta is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org