Dontae
Last seen for girls in 1992 at #11,738 · #2,991 for boys in 2025, 41 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 219 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,934since 1969
Dontae over time
Rank among boys' names. Dontae has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,991 | 41 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,958 | 42 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,952 | 42 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,717 | 48 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,439 | 55 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,167 | 64 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,129 | 67 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,083 | 68 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,792 | 85 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,066 | 68 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,641 | 97 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,751 | 86 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,725 | 85 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,498 | 107 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,285 | 133 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,349 | 126 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,125 | 164 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,198 | 147 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,115 | 164 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,081 | 163 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,105 | 149 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,095 | 144 | |
| 2003 | — | #959 | 170 | |
| 2002 | — | #965 | 165 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,042 | 141 | |
| 2000 | — | #986 | 150 | |
| 1999 | — | #889 | 169 | |
| 1998 | — | #823 | 180 | |
| 1997 | — | #792 | 187 | |
| 1996 | — | #717 | 219 | |
| 1995 | — | #959 | 134 | |
| 1994 | — | #994 | 125 | |
| 1993 | — | #825 | 163 | |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #814 | 165 |
| 1991 | — | #797 | 167 | |
| 1990 | — | #732 | 194 | |
| 1989 | — | #795 | 156 | |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #840 | 128 |
| 1987 | — | #772 | 142 | |
| 1986 | — | #886 | 105 | |
| 1985 | — | #795 | 125 | |
| 1984 | — | #879 | 100 | |
| 1983 | — | #843 | 107 | |
| 1982 | — | #884 | 102 | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #935 | 92 |
| 1980 | — | #1,055 | 73 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,056 | 70 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,149 | 59 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,289 | 48 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,427 | 39 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,630 | 31 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,790 | 26 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,216 | 18 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,344 | 9 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,813 | 12 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,739 | 12 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dontae! It came in at #3,935, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Dontae is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#619 · 1 in 3,787
- Indiana#819 · 1 in 5,742
- Ohio#840 · 1 in 6,484
- Pennsylvania#945 · 1 in 8,315
- Florida#1,032 · 1 in 8,788
Best ever in a state: #225 in District of Columbia, 1974.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Maryland | #619 | 7 | 1 in 3,787 |
| Indiana | #819 | 6 | 1 in 5,742 |
| Ohio | #840 | 9 | 1 in 6,484 |
| Pennsylvania | #945 | 7 | 1 in 8,315 |
| Florida | #1,032 | 11 | 1 in 8,788 |
| New York | #1,560 | 6 | 1 in 16,259 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Dontae
- 33 spots since 2024 (#2,958 → #2,991)
- 824 spots since 2020 (#2,167 → #2,991)
- 1,350 spots since 2015 (#1,641 → #2,991)
- Biggest jump: 242 spots in 1996 (#959 → #717)
- Biggest drop: 169 spots in 1994 (#825 → #994)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1996 at #717 (219 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 1981–2000
- Highest: 1 in 8,650 boys born in 1996 were named Dontae (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 41,660 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.7% of all boys named Dontae (1,703) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6 | #3,935 (1969) | #3,935 |
| 1970s | 324 | #1,056 (1979) | #1,945 |
| 1980s | 1,130 | #772 (1987) | #868 |
| 1990s | 1,703 | #717 (1996) | #834 |
| 2000s | 1,557 | #959 (2003) | #1,067 |
| 2010s | 922 | #1,285 (2011) | #1,732 |
| 2020s | 292 | #2,167 (2020) | #2,704 |
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.
Dontae in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 21,776 of them was named Dontae, which outranked 87.4% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,780Rickey86
- #1,780Taha86
- #1,780Yousif86
- #1,792Dontae85
- #1,792Gavriel85
- #1,792Jaydan85
- #1,792Kahlil85
- #1,804Booker84
- #1,804Gracen84
- #1,804Hadi84
Tied with 11 names at #1,792; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.