Dona

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Dona: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

2registrars recorded it
14times a registrar ranked it
51years from first to last
#447highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2001–2020

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2001	#3998
2002	#4137
2004	#2802
2005	#4798
2006	#3548
2007	#3218
2008	#3860
2009	#4564
2011	#5785
2016	#5785
2020	#4535

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 3 of the 40 years from 1970 to 2009.

In 2009: #893 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #4564 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1970–2020 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1970
First recorded at #447 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1970 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1970–2009
Highest recorded position: #447 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1970 (recorded 1970–2009).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2020
Most recently recorded at #4535 among girls in England and Wales, in 2020.
England and Wales · Girls

Dona appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 11 ranked years and 45 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1970.

Dona across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Dona's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#447 (1970)	#447 (1970)	#893 (2009)	3 of 40	9 (1970–2009)	3 (1970)
England and Wales · Girls	#3998 (2001)	#2802 (2004)	#4535 (2020)	11 of 20	45 (2001–2020)	6 (2004)

Dona by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Dona in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000sbusiest	35	8 of 10	4
2010s	6	2 of 10	3
2020s	4	1 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 4 births a year.

See the names England and Wales has recorded the most births with →

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1970 to 2020. Highest recorded position: #447 in Republic of Ireland in 1970.

Dona's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2020	England and Wales	female	#4535	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3218	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3548	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#529	3	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#447	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Dona is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Dona, between 1970 and 2020, in 13 of those 51 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1970–2009	3	#447 in 1970
England and Wales	2001–2020	11	#2802 in 2004

Its high point came 34 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1970) than in England and Wales (2004).

No registrar recorded it for 17 years after 1983; it appears again in 2001.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

Dona was ranked #447 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1970. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Adrianne#447
Ailis#447
Alexis#447
Amber#447

What is known about Dona

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 2 official registrars, 1970–2020.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1970 to 2020. Highest recorded position: #447 in Republic of Ireland in 1970. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Dona

Dona at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Dona across 2 official records

Dona by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Popularity data

Where Dona is officially recorded

Names published alongside Dona

What is known about Dona

Dona at a glance

Dona across 2 official records

Dona by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Names published alongside Dona