Donatas

given name · Latin script

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

Donatas is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • LTLithuania≈1 in 201(inferred from the name graph)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 183K
  • ISIceland1 in 5.8K

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.

Lithuania (inferred from the name graph)

≈14,000 people, est.

Sources
128 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 201 (inferred from the name graph)

Lithuania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Donatas 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 Donatas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LT Lithuania#23≈14,000 est.≈1 in 201listedDonatas128
CN China—≈1,900 est.≈1 in 727K—Donatas2
GB United Kingdom—≈360 est.≈1 in 183KlistedDonatas79
NO Norway—3321 in 16K1.3KDonatas25
DE Germany—≈180 est.≈1 in 445K—Donatas34
DK Denmark—961 in 61K96Donatas22
IS Iceland—611 in 5.8K61Donatas6
EE Estonia—≈38 est.≈1 in 32K11Donatas6

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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Donatas is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Türkiye, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Донатас, Данатас

  • Bulgarian name8 spellings in the group

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Донатас

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Donatas is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, accusative feminine plural of dōnātus

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Donatas Malinauskas, b. 1869Donatas Banionis, b. 1924Donatas Vencevičius, b. 1973Donatas Slanina, b. 1977Donatas Simukauskas, b. 1979Donatas Zavackas, b. 1980Donny Montell, b. 1987Donatas Rumšas, b. 1988Donatas Motiejūnas, b. 1990Donatas Kazlauskas, b. 1994

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 26 sources across 14 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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

In which country does Donatas have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Donatas in Lithuania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled donatas.
Is Donatas a male or female name?
Donatas 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.
What are other forms of the name Donatas?
In the etymology graph, Donatus, Donatello and Donát are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Donatas?
In Norway, the national register counted 332 people named Donatas in 2025, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
How common is Donatas compared with other names?
In Lithuania, Donatas is the 23rd most common given name of 5,944 given names recorded there.

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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, “Donatas” — the 23rd most common given name in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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