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It’s okay. I like it better than some of the other 60-70s standards like Barbara, Linda, Cindy, Carol, Brenda but I don’t see it making a comeback anytime soon.

I actually really like Donna. In threads that ask your favorite popular names from past eras, I've written before that I think if I'd been a mom in the 60s or 70s and without access to name nerd resources, I could easily have had kids named Kevin, Nicholas (which I still love), Donna, and / or Lori.

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While I would love for Donna to come back, it's too much of a Mom / Grandma Name right now. Give it another 40 years, when it potentially becomes a Great-Grandma name, because that's generally when they start to appeal again.

I think it's cute. Two of my cousins (they're sisters) have an aunt named Donna.

Donna is a very very common name for older women in my neck of the woods. It's on par with Brenda (a name I hate). Most Donnas I know are very nice, so I don't mind it, and I wonder if its 70s energy will ever be "cool" again. Maybe once it becomes a great-grandma name? I see it's still being used in the Netherlands quite a bit!

I taught a boy whose younger sister (too young for high school) was Donné, pronounced Donnay. South Africans have historically been bad at French, though it is increasingly being taught in schools as a third language, so this may well change. Whatever! Donné is enough to make anyone prefer Donna, in spite of doner kebabs and the sixteen-year-old virgin in Hair! But it's a silly name, somehow manages to be both pretentious and down-market.

It's ok, I know a Donna in her early 20s

I feel like if it came back, it may revive itself as Dawna. Or... something to that effect. I personally like the name Donna in its original form, but it seems too common and just not quite vintage enough to "come back" yet.

Kebab

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Probably not. This type of food item is very common where I'm from. It makes the name sound very... "meaty".