Donita

Girls' name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US: ~4,300 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: Unranked no births recorded
Births in 2025: 0 5,189 since 1880
Typical age: 63 years, median

Donita popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1915–2009. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

1962 is the peak year for Donita, with 199 births. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1915. It reaches the top 1,000 in 21 years of the record.

The name last cleared the reporting threshold in 2009.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Donita?

An estimated 4,300 living Americans are called Donita. SSA has recorded 5,189 births under the name since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Donita?

Median age among living Donitas: 63. More of them were born in the 1950s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Donita a late 20th-century name.

Your Donita

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Notable people named Donita

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
Name		Known for	Years	Editions
	Donita Sparks	American singer and guitarist	1963	9

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

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Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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