Etymology

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.

Quotations

• 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.