Dontavious

Where Dontavious comes from

Blend of Donte + Octavius, the latter revised to accord with -ious.
— Wiktionary's entry for Dontavious
Along the way
  1. 1980
    First appearance
    #4,940 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1991
    Peak, #1,095
    99 babies named Dontavious — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2004
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,316.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Namesakes

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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.