# Donta (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/donta/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,990 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,899 / 91 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 6 | 7,318 |
| 1973 | 6 | 7,683 |
| 1974 | 8 | 6,394 |
| 1975 | 9 | 6,096 |
| 1976 | 5 | 9,690 |
| 1977 | 7 | 7,752 |
| 1978 | 9 | 6,536 |
| 1979 | 9 | 6,857 |
| 1980 | 7 | 8,383 |
| 1983 | 7 | 8,274 |
| 1984 | 6 | 9,448 |
| 1991 | 6 | 11,919 |
| 1993 | 6 | 12,213 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 51 | 2,449 |
| 2012 | 33 | 3,319 |
| 2013 | 38 | 2,968 |
| 2014 | 29 | 3,637 |
| 2015 | 21 | 4,590 |
| 2016 | 38 | 3,076 |
| 2017 | 32 | 3,463 |
| 2018 | 26 | 4,022 |
| 2019 | 25 | 4,144 |
| 2020 | 22 | 4,460 |
| 2021 | 25 | 4,143 |
| 2022 | 19 | 5,077 |
| 2023 | 10 | 7,871 |
| 2024 | 14 | 6,261 |
| 2025 | 10 | 7,810 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |

## People named Donta

- Donta Smith, American basketball player
- Donta Hall, American basketball player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.