Entry № 2616 · Italian origin

Donna Donna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DON-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Lady (peaked #5 in 1960; Donna Summer, Donna Karan)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "lady (peaked #5 in 1960; donna summer, donna karan)".

Donna is the Italian word for "lady, woman" — from the Latin domina (mistress, lady of the house).

Lady (peaked #5 in 1960; Donna Summer, Donna Karan) — a Italian name.

The name in its native script.

Donna
Transliteration
Donna
Pronunciation
/ ˈdɒn.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Donna stands.

Donna does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Donnas before her.

Real people
Donna Summer
Queen of Disco.
1948 – 2012
Donna Karan
American fashion designer.
born 1948
Donna Tartt
American Pulitzer novelist.
born 1963
In fiction
Donna
Mamma Mia!
1999

Names connected to Donna.

The number behind Donna.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Donna reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.