Dontavious
#7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
- Peak · boys
- 1991 · 99 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,912since 1980
Dontavious over time
Rank among boys' names. Dontavious has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,679 | 10 |
| 2024 | #6,469 | 13 |
| 2023 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #5,215 | 18 |
| 2021 | #8,825 | 8 |
| 2020 | #3,074 | 37 |
| 2019 | #4,003 | 26 |
| 2018 | #6,345 | 13 |
| 2017 | #3,993 | 26 |
| 2016 | #3,230 | 35 |
| 2015 | #3,982 | 26 |
| 2014 | #3,787 | 27 |
| 2013 | #3,661 | 28 |
| 2012 | #2,716 | 44 |
| 2011 | #3,235 | 34 |
| 2010 | #2,429 | 51 |
| 2009 | #2,401 | 53 |
| 2008 | #2,583 | 48 |
| 2007 | #2,473 | 51 |
| 2006 | #2,176 | 59 |
| 2005 | #2,325 | 50 |
| 2004 | #2,316 | 49 |
| 2003 | #1,815 | 65 |
| 2002 | #2,092 | 51 |
| 2001 | #1,629 | 72 |
| 2000 | #1,585 | 74 |
| 1999 | #1,801 | 55 |
| 1998 | #1,605 | 65 |
| 1997 | #1,509 | 69 |
| 1996 | #1,574 | 63 |
| 1995 | #1,527 | 62 |
| 1994 | #1,421 | 68 |
| 1993 | #1,238 | 84 |
| 1992 | #1,210 | 86 |
| 1991 | #1,095 | 99 |
| 1990 | #1,435 | 61 |
| 1989 | #2,068 | 34 |
| 1988 | #1,553 | 47 |
| 1987 | #1,793 | 36 |
| 1986 | #2,007 | 29 |
| 1985 | #2,226 | 24 |
| 1984 | #3,459 | 12 |
| 1983 | #3,230 | 13 |
| 1982 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #4,153 | 9 |
| 1980 | #4,940 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dontavious! It came in at #4,940, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1980–1982, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Dontavious is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Georgia#350 · 1 in 2,243
- Mississippi#429 · 1 in 2,557
- Alabama#440 · 1 in 3,153
- Tennessee#655 · 1 in 7,208
- Florida#803 · 1 in 8,669
Best ever in a state: #175 in Georgia, 1991.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Georgia | #350 | 23 | 1 in 2,243 |
| Mississippi | #429 | 6 | 1 in 2,557 |
| Alabama | #440 | 8 | 1 in 3,153 |
| Tennessee | #655 | 5 | 1 in 7,208 |
| Florida | #803 | 10 | 1 in 8,669 |
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See more about Dontavious
- 1,210 spots since 2024 (#6,469 → #7,679)
- 4,605 spots since 2020 (#3,074 → #7,679)
- 3,697 spots since 2015 (#3,982 → #7,679)
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 1991 at #1,095 (99 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,407 boys born in 1991 were named Dontavious (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 37.2% of all boys named Dontavious (712) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 220 | #1,553 (1988) | #2,966 |
| 1990s | 712 | #1,095 (1991) | #1,442 |
| 2000s | 572 | #1,585 (2000) | #2,140 |
| 2010s | 310 | #2,429 (2010) | #3,738 |
| 2020s | 98 | #3,074 (2020) | #6,360 |
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.
Dontavious in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
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1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 29,406 of them was named Dontavious, which outranked 85.8% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,585Yaakov66
- #1,585Zaid66
- #1,585Zakery66
- #1,605Dontavious65
- #1,605Ashwin65
- #1,605Demitri65
- #1,605Johnson65
- #1,622Baylor64
- #1,622Bradon64
- #1,622Cheyenne64
Tied with 16 names at #1,605; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.