Dontae
Last seen for girls in 1992 at #11,738 · #2,991 for boys in 2025, 41 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 219 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,934since 1969
Dontae over time
Rank among boys' names. Dontae has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,991 | 41 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,958 | 42 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,952 | 42 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,717 | 48 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,439 | 55 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,167 | 64 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,129 | 67 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,083 | 68 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,792 | 85 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,066 | 68 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,641 | 97 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,751 | 86 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,725 | 85 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,498 | 107 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,285 | 133 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,349 | 126 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,125 | 164 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,198 | 147 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,115 | 164 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,081 | 163 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,105 | 149 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,095 | 144 | |
| 2003 | — | #959 | 170 | |
| 2002 | — | #965 | 165 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,042 | 141 | |
| 2000 | — | #986 | 150 | |
| 1999 | — | #889 | 169 | |
| 1998 | — | #823 | 180 | |
| 1997 | — | #792 | 187 | |
| 1996 | — | #717 | 219 | |
| 1995 | — | #959 | 134 | |
| 1994 | — | #994 | 125 | |
| 1993 | — | #825 | 163 | |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #814 | 165 |
| 1991 | — | #797 | 167 | |
| 1990 | — | #732 | 194 | |
| 1989 | — | #795 | 156 | |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #840 | 128 |
| 1987 | — | #772 | 142 | |
| 1986 | — | #886 | 105 | |
| 1985 | — | #795 | 125 | |
| 1984 | — | #879 | 100 | |
| 1983 | — | #843 | 107 | |
| 1982 | — | #884 | 102 | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #935 | 92 |
| 1980 | — | #1,055 | 73 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,056 | 70 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,149 | 59 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,289 | 48 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,427 | 39 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,630 | 31 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,790 | 26 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,216 | 18 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,344 | 9 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,813 | 12 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,739 | 12 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dontae! It came in at #3,935, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
See more about Dontae
- 33 spots since 2024 (#2,958 → #2,991)
- 824 spots since 2020 (#2,167 → #2,991)
- 1,350 spots since 2015 (#1,641 → #2,991)
- Biggest jump: 242 spots in 1996 (#959 → #717)
- Biggest drop: 169 spots in 1994 (#825 → #994)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1996 at #717 (219 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 1981–2000
- Highest: 1 in 8,650 boys born in 1996 were named Dontae (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 41,660 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.7% of all boys named Dontae (1,703) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6 | #3,935 (1969) | #3,935 |
| 1970s | 324 | #1,056 (1979) | #1,945 |
| 1980s | 1,130 | #772 (1987) | #868 |
| 1990s | 1,703 | #717 (1996) | #834 |
| 2000s | 1,557 | #959 (2003) | #1,067 |
| 2010s | 922 | #1,285 (2011) | #1,732 |
| 2020s | 292 | #2,167 (2020) | #2,704 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dontae in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 333,612 of them was named Dontae, which outranked 14.6% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,787 names at #10,411; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 19,469 of them was named Dontae, which outranked 87.2% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).