Doná
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Doná is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Variante di Donato.
- BRBrazil1 in 217K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 300as Donna
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 307as Donna
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 Doná 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #142 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 617 (measured from records)
- 1 in 217K (inferred from the name graph)
635,065 named Donna, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Donna in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 4 more and Dona in BR Brazil.
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)Variante di Donato
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Nordic Names
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Doná 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #58 | 635,065as Donna | 1 in 524 | 635K | Donna | 617 |
| GB United Kingdom | #73 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 338 | 79 | Donna | 318 |
| CA Canada | #50 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 373 | 1 | Donna | 295 |
| IT Italy | #135 | ≈99,000 est. | ≈1 in 627 | 2 | Donna | 67 |
| EG Egypt | #413 | ≈99,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Donna | 38 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 46,271as Danna | 1 in 365 | 46K | — | 15 |
| IE Ireland | #42 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 300 | listed | Donna | 122 |
| NZ New Zealand | #56 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 307 | 11 | Donna | 147 |
| BR Brazil | — | 977 | 1 in 217K | 977 | Dona | 82 |
635,065 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INEC — civil registry names; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)Doná 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 Spanish, second-person singular voseo imperative of donar
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Doná mean, and where does it come from?
- Variante di Donato Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Doná have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 635 thousand people named Donna, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Doná most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Doná is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 217 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Doná?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 977 people named Doná in 2022, about 1 in 217 thousand residents.
- How common is Doná compared with other names?
- In the United States, Doná is the 58th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/don%C3%A1The 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, “Doná” — the 58th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.