Donna
Barely 92 women in Poland carry it, and the record shows no newborns given the name this century. It comes from Latin, meaning "lady" or "woman".
Donna Pronunciation
Donna is pronounced DON-nah (/ˈdɔnna/).
What Donna means
Where Donna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Donna comes from the Latin `domina`, the lady of a house, its mistress and the one who held the keys. Italian kept the word almost unchanged as `donna`, the plain, everyday term for a woman. English speakers borrowed it as a first name, and it rose fastest in mid-century America. Donna sat in the United States top ten for girls through the late 1950s, peaking around 1960.
The meaning stayed close to the root. To carry the name is to carry the plain sense of "lady, woman," with no legend fastened to it. It gathered no lasting diminutives and no variant spelling that held. Donna stands on its own.
On a Polish class register the name reads as an import, not a saint's name with its own imieniny. Short and flat. Its Latin bones stay legible underneath: `domina`, lady, woman.
How many people are named Donna
1 in 245042 women in Poland is named Donna. 92 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3633 among female names.
Donna as a middle name
Donna is a first name for 92 women in Poland and a middle name for another 29, a 76/24 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1302nd, between Chen (29) and Edeltraut (29).
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#1300 Ariela29
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#1301 Chen29
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#1302 Donna29
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#1303 Edeltraut29
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#1304 Edita29