Donnie

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Donnie, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Benny
• Darko
• Eddie
• Gordon
• Sheldon
• Adonis
• Andy
• Augie
• Brandon
• Van
• Ronald
• Adolf

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Donnie is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian given name13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Donny, Донни, Donni, Донние, Донні

53 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.

Donnie 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 Dutch, a 10-euro banknote

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Ma Barkerb. 1871USnot in their usual nameAmerican mother of several criminals and Barker Gang leader (1873–1935)
• Donnie Dunaganb. 1934USactor and United States Marine
• Donnie Allisonb. 1939USAmerican racecar driver
• Donnie Walshb. 1941USAmerican basketball coach and executive
• Donnie Van Zantb. 1952USAmerican singer
• Donnie Andrewsb. 1954USformer criminal, turned anti-crime advocate (1954-2012)
• Donnie Mooreb. 1954USAmerican baseball player (1954–1989)
• Donnie Yenb. 1963CNHong Kong actor, film director and martial artist (born 1963)
• Donnie Wahlbergb. 1969USAmerican musician, singer, producer and actor
• Donnie Keshawarzb. 1969CACanadian actor

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).

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.

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

What are other forms of the name Donnie?

In the etymology graph, Don, Donny and Donal are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Donald.

What does the name Donnie mean, and where does it come from?

A diminutive of the male given names Don, Donald, Donovan, or Adonis. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

Is Donnie a male or female name?

Donnie is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).

How do you pronounce Donnie?

In English /ˈdɒni/ (Wiktionary).

In which country does Donnie have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 40 thousand people named Donnie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled donnie.

How common is the name Donnie?

In the United States, the national register counted 39,556 people named Donnie in 2020, about 1 in 8.4 thousand residents.

How common is Donnie compared with other names?

In the United States, Donnie is the 715th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.