Dontae

Where Dontae comes from

Dontae 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. 1969
    First appearance
    #3,935 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1989
    Dontae Richards-Kwok born
    Canadian sprinter
  3. 1991
    Dontae Johnson born
    American football player
  4. 1996
    Peak, #717
    219 babies named Dontae — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2012
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,498.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Dontae Richards-Kwok · Canadian sprinter, born 1989
  • Dontae Johnson · American football player, born 1991

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.