Donnie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A diminutive of the male given names Don, Donald, Donovan, or Adonis
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Donnie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 4.6K
- USUnited States1 in 8.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Donnie itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 463 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈260,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A diminutive of the male given names Don, Donald, Donovan, or Adonis.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Donnie 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Donnie | 17 |
| US United States | #715 | 39,556 | 1 in 8.4K | 37K | Donnie | 463 |
| GB United Kingdom | #922 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 3 | Donnie | 121 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Donnie | 23 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Donnie | 69 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,026as Donny | 1 in 8.5K | 2K | Donnie | 27 |
| IE Ireland | #312 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Donnie | 25 |
| SG Singapore | #429 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Donnie | 21 |
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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); the il-grande-libro-nomi-bebe-2020 register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
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 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)
- 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 37K | #1,059 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.8K | #1,059 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1952 | 1.8K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1953 | 1.8K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1954 | 1.8K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1951 | 1.7K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1950 | 1.7K | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 164 | #3,250 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 147 | #6,481 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 89 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 6 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 5 | #42,347 |
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
- 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).
- 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.
- Is Donnie a male or female name?
- Donnie 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 Donnie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 264 thousand people named Donnie in China, 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 Ireland, Donnie is the 312th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Donnie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/donnieThe 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, “Donnie” — the 312th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.