Donatus Forename

13,396th
Most Common
name in the World

Approximately 73,007 people bear this name

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Donatus Forename Definition:

A male name. Latin ‘given’. The name of several martyrs as well as of the famous schismatic. Donatus may have been used in Britain before the AS period— the Welsh Dynawd has been derived from it, and Donat is found in Ireland. In the Middle Ages it is found from time to time, both m.

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Donatus Forename Distribution

PlaceGenderIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria
100%
47,7731:3,717659
Indonesia
100%
13,2441:19,4782,745
Tanzania
100%
5,0341:10,4861,355
Cameroon
100%
3,0771:7,023963
Ghana
100%
1,4611:18,4711,437
Papua New Guinea
99%
 
6381:12,7781,286
South Africa
99%
 
3721:146,59310,387
United States
94%
 
2111:1,718,18530,117
India
100%
2021:6,014,247215,796
Germany
100%
1631:593,1165,820
Kenya
96%
 
1541:300,69610,465
England
100%
1241:448,4119,901
Uganda
92%
 
1071:382,7759,984
Malaysia
91%
 
761:400,65718,736
Zimbabwe
96%
 
681:226,82113,153
Namibia-601:40,0702,728
Canada-321:1,035,41820,413
Switzerland
100%
301:273,7835,582
Liberia
100%
281:157,5746,010
Brazil
100%
151:14,282,410156,374
Austria
100%
141:608,1575,259
Belgium
100%
121:957,50311,814
Saint Lucia
100%
91:19,7572,072
Zambia-81:1,981,84920,512
Sweden
100%
81:1,232,23822,791
Iceland-71:52,2882,981
United Arab Emirates-61:1,191,99940,353
Trinidad and Tobago-51:272,28413,349
Poland-41:9,506,7785,827
Rwanda-41:2,842,8582,668
DR Congo
100%
41:18,456,90195,891
Kuwait-41:946,31612,511
Benin-41:2,643,96145,199
Sri Lanka-41:5,199,77210,550
France
100%
31:22,156,78046,973
Italy
100%
31:20,354,03045,650
Ivory Coast-21:11,537,96695,271
Venezuela
100%
21:15,100,946147,145
Norway-21:2,566,16424,989
Thailand-21:35,032,906298,615
Singapore
100%
21:3,143,52727,876
Senegal-21:7,290,67824,413
China-21:683,027,89194,999
Ukraine
100%
21:22,749,95422,291
Scotland-21:2,675,18318,328
Spain-11:46,529,96535,592
Solomon Islands-11:580,9578,641
Mauritania-11:4,095,23927,701
Hong Kong-11:7,752,72520,144
Australia-11:13,657,62255,904
Cape Verde-11:529,1516,361
Cayman Islands-11:61,2992,487
Czechia-11:10,656,16211,509
East Timor-11:1,218,375811
Estonia-11:1,315,3808,883
Gambia-11:1,926,5961,391
Greece-11:10,934,54822,228
Russia-11:144,233,704184,271
Israel-11:8,402,91845,019
Japan-11:127,986,05794,066
Ireland-11:4,643,51913,375
Micronesia-11:106,5001,462
Netherlands
100%
11:16,902,08343,152
Northern Cyprus-11:318,1333,044
Pakistan-11:194,357,680303,535
Qatar-11:2,369,60559,530

Donatus (20,222) may also be a surname.

Donatus Forename Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

A male name. Latin ‘given’. The name of several martyrs as well as of the famous schismatic. Donatus may have been used in Britain before the AS period— the Welsh Dynawd has been derived from it, and Donat is found in Ireland. In the Middle Ages it is found from time to time, both m. and f. usually in the form Donnet, and Charlotte Mary Yonge, History of ChristianNames, 2 vols. 1863. Revised ed. 1884 records a female Donnet in Cornwall as late as I755. For the development of Donnet or Donat from Donatus, cf. the word donet an elementary treatise, derived from the name (Aelius) Donatus, the author of a popular rudimentary Latin grammar widely used in the Middle Ages.

The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe

Latin (masculine) - God-given.

What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody

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