Donnie is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
Donnie is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1471 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,470 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 60,502 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Donnie. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Donnie annualy. This means that there have been boys named Donnie who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Donnie have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Donnie even more than any other time: in 1951, it holds its present record at rank #142 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Donnie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Donnie has never been ranked higher than #142. In 2022, he rivaled the 1,621 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 90 boys named Donnie were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Donnie were born, there have been 258 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.
With six letters, the name Donnie is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.
If your name is Donnie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Donnie, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Orange
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Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Donnie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Donnie sounds like this:
