Donna
English
Etymology
A 19th-century invention from the Italian noun donna; also interpreted as a feminine form of Donald.
Proper noun
Donna
- A female given name.
- 1914 Mary McNeil Fenollosa, Ariadne of Allan Water, Burt, 1914, page 30:
- "Did you ever know a lady named Miss May-rant? With a funny sort of first name, like Donna? Yes, that is it - Miss Donna May-rant."
- 1958 Ritchie Valens Donna ( a song) :
- I had a girl / Donna was her name. / Since she left me / I've never been the same.
- 1914 Mary McNeil Fenollosa, Ariadne of Allan Water, Burt, 1914, page 30:
Usage notes
- Popular in the U.S.A. in the 1940s and the 1950s, and in the U.K. in the 1970s and the 1980s.
Translations
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