Dontavius

#8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births

Peak · boys
1993 · 55 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,070
since 1980

Dontavius over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Dontavius has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201980peak #1,620, 1993boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#8,2439
2024#6,19914
2023#9,7637
2022#7,26211
2021#5,77615
2020#9,5547
2019#5,55516
2018#6,70312
2017#5,11118
2016#8,1469
2015#8,0409
2014#7,04811
2013#7,53710
2012#6,30613
2011#8,0799
2010#3,99425
2009#4,74820
2008#5,48716
2007#3,68728
2006#4,52020
2005#4,46419
2004#3,07432
2003#3,36627
2002#2,63236
2001#2,93131
2000#2,37940
1999#2,60833
1998#2,31238
1997#1,67259
1996#1,95845
1995#2,02641
1994#2,12338
1993#1,62055
1992#1,64353
1991#1,82343
1990#1,94639
1989#2,15432
1988#2,25527
1987#2,64120
1986#2,68419
1985#3,80511
1984#2,95615
1983#3,63011
1982#3,28213
1981#4,9617
1980#4,9407
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First appearance
1980

The first year at least five boys were named Dontavius! It came in at #4,940, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1980–1981, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.

See more about Dontavius
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 2,044 spots since 2024 (#6,199#8,243)
  • 1,311 spots since 2020 (#9,554#8,243)
  • 203 spots since 2015 (#8,040#8,243)
Rise & fade · boys
13 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1980
  • Peaked 1993 at #1,620 (55 births)
  • Births halved by 2003, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 31,952
  • Highest: 1 in 31,952 boys born in 1997 were named Dontavius (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,620 in 1993, was only 1 in 35,661 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 41.5% of all boys named Dontavius (444) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s162#2,154 (1989)#3,331
1990s444#1,620 (1993)#1,973
2000s269#2,379 (2000)#3,729
2010s132#3,994 (2010)#6,652
2020s63#5,776 (2021)#7,800

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.

Dontavius in 1980

boys
#4,940
7 births · 1 in 254,850 boys

Top boys' names in 1980

  1. #1Michael68,683
  2. #2Christopher49,079
  3. #3Jason48,164
  4. #4David41,891
  5. #5James39,312
  6. #6Matthew37,834
  7. #7Joshua36,052
  8. #8John35,274
  9. #9Robert34,266
  10. #10Joseph30,185
  11. #4,940Dontavius7
More about 1980

boys

1,783,951 boys got a published name in 1980; 1 in 254,850 of them was named Dontavius, which outranked 32.3% of the 7,293 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Dontavius
  1. #4,495Zebulin8
  2. #4,495Zeeshan8
  3. #4,495Zeyad8
  4. #4,940Dontavius7
  5. #4,940Aamir7
  6. #4,940Aaren7
  7. #4,940Abasi7
  8. #5,525Aarion6
  9. #5,525Abdallah6
  10. #5,525Abdias6

Tied with 584 names at #4,940; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1979
Risers
  1. 381Gideon#1,370#989
  2. 296Bo#864#568
  3. 270Anson#1,137#867
  4. 266Dustan#1,255#989
  5. 255Dusty#614#359
Fallers
  1. 366Harris#991#1,357
  2. 362Tracey#842#1,204
  3. 331Jevon#780#1,111
  4. 321Kennith#937#1,258
  5. 267Levar#644#911

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1980