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Dontavious

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Dontavious is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
130.00% of boys
Peak year
199199 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1980
1,902people given the name
Babies named Dontavious, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,902 boys have been named Dontavious in the United States since 1980, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1991, with 99 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2000, and the 1990s alone account for 37%.

By decade

Decadeboys named Dontavious
1980s220
1990s712
2000s572
2010s310
2020s88

In 1991, its biggest year

Dontavious was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1991 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1991.

Names that rose and fell with Dontavious

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.