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dona Name Meaning and History

  1. Italian (Donà): Venetian variant of Donato.
  2. Southern Italian: from a reduced form of Adona, feminine form of Adone.
  3. Hungarian: from a pet form of the personal name Donát (see Donath).
  4. Catalan: perhaps from dona ‘lady’, ‘woman’.

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Distribution of dona Families in the US in 1920
Number of dona families
 13-24
 5-12
 1-4
 0
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