Donta

given name · Latin script

Meaning: A male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/dəntə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Donta is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 132K(measured from records)
  • LRLiberia≈1 in 61K
  • IEIreland≈1 in 300K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,523 people, 2020

Sources
228 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)

Liberia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Donta counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Donta is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—2,5231 in 132K2.4KDonta228
GB United Kingdom—≈120 est.≈1 in 548K—Donta15
LR Liberia#786≈83 est.≈1 in 61K—Donta1
IT Italy—≈71 est.≈1 in 878K—Donta2
CA Canada—≈44 est.≈1 in 853K—Donta9
IE Ireland—≈17 est.≈1 in 300K—Donta1
SG Singapore—≈9 est.≈1 in 729K—Donta1

2,523 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Donta is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Dontá

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Dontá

  • Thai given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Thailand, India

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written ดลตา, ดณฑา, ดลิตา, Dontha, Dulita

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Dontá

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Dontá

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1970198019902000Donta Jones, b. 1972Donta Bright, b. 1973Donta Smith, b. 1983Donta Hall, b. 1997Donta Scott, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Donta,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Donta
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.4K#6,382
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1991141—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1990130—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1989129—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1988126—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1992124—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1978120—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1993116—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1984112—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1986111—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1983110—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1977110—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Donta mean, and where does it come from?
A male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Donta?
A machine transcription gives /dəntə/ (IPA) for English.
Is Donta a male or female name?
Donta is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Donta have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Donta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled donta.
How common is the name Donta?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,523 people named Donta in 2020, about 1 in 132 thousand residents.
How common is Donta compared with other names?
In Liberia, Donta is the 786th most common given name of 2,671 given names recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/donta

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Donta” — the 786th most common given name in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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