Dionte

Where Dionte comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Dionte.

  • Vowel-ended
Dionte through the years
  1. 1971
    First appearance
    #4,907 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1986
    Dionte Christmas born
    American basketball player
  3. 1993
    Peak, #806
    172 babies named Dionte, the most in any year.
  4. 2001
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,452.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Deonte.
Namesakes
  • Dionte Christmas · American basketball player, born 1986

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.