Adonna
Feminine
Adonna is Donna with an A in front, a mid-century American name. It looks a little like Adonai, the Hebrew word for 'my Lord', but it was built from Donna, the Italian word for 'lady', and nothing ties it to the Hebrew.
How old is the name Adonna?
Adonna first appears in US birth records in 1923 — 102 years ago. The typical Adonna alive today was born around 1965, making them about 60 years old. About 500 people named Adonna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Adonna most popular?
Adonna peaked in 1953, reaching #2236 nationally. See the whole 1953 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Adonna
Donna was one of the defining American girls' names of the mid-century, and the best-known Donna of those years was Donna Reed: she won an Academy Award as a supporting actress in From Here to Eternity, then helped produce The Donna Reed Show, in which she played the mother, for eight seasons. Adonna takes that name and opens it with a soft A, so it begins like a breath and ends like a bow. It only resembles Adonai; it came from the lady, not the Lord.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Adonna appears to be Donna with an A- front; it is not documented as related to Adonai or Adonis.
Pronouncing Adonna
uh-DON-uh
Three syllables with the stress on the second.
Nicknames for Adonna
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1923
- Most girls named
- 195322 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2236reached in 1953
- Change vs 2012
- +40.0%7 in 2014, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Adonnas among us
people named Adonna are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Adonna sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Built on Donna, a name everyone knows.
- Comes with Donna as a ready short form.
- Rare, so an Adonna is unlikely to share her name.
- People will hear Donna or Adonia.
- Some will notice a resemblance to Adonai and ask about it.
- It reads as a mid-century name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Adonnas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Adonna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Adonna in 2025?
- Adonna is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Adonna with classmates?
- Adonna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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