Dontay
#6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births
- Peak · boys
- 1983 · 62 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,431since 1971
Dontay over time
Rank among boys' names. Dontay has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,803 | 12 |
| 2024 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #5,470 | 17 |
| 2022 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #4,494 | 22 |
| 2020 | #4,020 | 25 |
| 2019 | #5,340 | 17 |
| 2018 | #3,891 | 27 |
| 2017 | #3,889 | 27 |
| 2016 | #3,883 | 27 |
| 2015 | #3,684 | 29 |
| 2014 | #3,090 | 36 |
| 2013 | #3,265 | 33 |
| 2012 | #3,714 | 28 |
| 2011 | #2,663 | 45 |
| 2010 | #2,324 | 55 |
| 2009 | #2,800 | 43 |
| 2008 | #2,684 | 46 |
| 2007 | #2,117 | 64 |
| 2006 | #2,221 | 57 |
| 2005 | #2,365 | 49 |
| 2004 | #2,131 | 55 |
| 2003 | #1,962 | 59 |
| 2002 | #1,694 | 69 |
| 2001 | #1,777 | 63 |
| 2000 | #2,087 | 48 |
| 1999 | #1,574 | 70 |
| 1998 | #1,622 | 64 |
| 1997 | #1,648 | 61 |
| 1996 | #1,480 | 68 |
| 1995 | #1,527 | 62 |
| 1994 | #1,564 | 59 |
| 1993 | #1,420 | 67 |
| 1992 | #1,472 | 62 |
| 1991 | #1,325 | 72 |
| 1990 | #1,252 | 78 |
| 1989 | #1,308 | 70 |
| 1988 | #1,355 | 58 |
| 1987 | #1,153 | 69 |
| 1986 | #1,694 | 37 |
| 1985 | #1,214 | 61 |
| 1984 | #1,154 | 62 |
| 1983 | #1,144 | 62 |
| 1982 | #1,514 | 41 |
| 1981 | #1,294 | 51 |
| 1980 | #1,341 | 49 |
| 1979 | #1,421 | 43 |
| 1978 | #1,616 | 34 |
| 1977 | #1,743 | 30 |
| 1976 | #1,711 | 30 |
| 1975 | #1,593 | 32 |
| 1974 | #2,129 | 20 |
| 1973 | #2,036 | 20 |
| 1972 | #2,534 | 14 |
| 1971 | #3,963 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dontay! It came in at #3,963, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Dontay is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#822 · 1 in 9,956
- New York#938 · 1 in 11,490
- Florida#1,163 · 1 in 17,176
- California#1,831 · 1 in 40,931
Best ever in a state: #275 in Maryland, 1983.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Illinois | #822 | 8 | 1 in 9,956 |
| New York | #938 | 10 | 1 in 11,490 |
| Florida | #1,163 | 5 | 1 in 17,176 |
| California | #1,831 | 6 | 1 in 40,931 |
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See more about Dontay
- 962 spots since 2024 (#7,765 → #6,803)
- 2,783 spots since 2020 (#4,020 → #6,803)
- 3,119 spots since 2015 (#3,684 → #6,803)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1983 at #1,144 (62 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 29 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 26,334 boys born in 1990 were named Dontay (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 142,340 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,144 in 1983, was only 1 in 28,912 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.3% of all boys named Dontay (663) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 230 | #1,421 (1979) | #2,083 |
| 1980s | 560 | #1,144 (1983) | #1,317 |
| 1990s | 663 | #1,252 (1990) | #1,488 |
| 2000s | 553 | #1,694 (2002) | #2,184 |
| 2010s | 324 | #2,324 (2010) | #3,574 |
| 2020s | 101 | #4,020 (2020) | #5,738 |
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.
Dontay in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
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1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 30,904 of them was named Dontay, which outranked 84.8% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,628Theo62
- #1,628Trysten62
- #1,628Zacary62
- #1,648Dontay61
- #1,648Adarius61
- #1,648Akshay61
- #1,648Dilan61
- #1,657Alston60
- #1,657Boston60
- #1,657Daveon60
Tied with 8 names at #1,648; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.