Given name & surname
Donis
Donis is used as a given name and a surname. Donis is connected with Adonis.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
Donis is used as a form of Adonis.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Donis is a form of Adonis. The history of Adonis gives this family its wider story. In mythological stories, Adonis is associated with a handsome young man loved by Aphrodite.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Donis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 726
- 161 boys · 565 girls
- Most popular year
- 1935
- 29 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,530 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,530 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 2019. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 705 as a first name in 2020; 2,858 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Donis’s family of names
Donis is a form of Adonis. Donis has a related form in Donnis. Donis has a related form in Dones.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Donis
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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