Donte

Where Donte comes from

Donte hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1961
    First appearance
    #3,356 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1995
    Donte Grantham born
    American basketball player
  3. 1997
    Donte DiVincenzo born
    American basketball player
  4. 1997
    Peak, #400
    589 babies named Donte — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2008
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #783.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Donte DiVincenzo · American basketball player, born 1997
  • Donte Grantham · American basketball player, born 1995
  • Donte Whitner · American football player, born 1985
  • Donte Moncrief · American football player, born 1993
  • Donte Ingram · American basketball player, born 1996

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.