Donte
Donte is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 79 births. Its best rank was 400th, in 1997.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 790.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1997589 births
- Best rank
- #400in 1997
- Since 1961
- 15,616people given the name
The story in the numbers
15,616 boys have been named Donte in the United States since 1961, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1997, with 589 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 1995, and the 1990s alone account for 32%. It has spent 42 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1997, its biggest year
Donte was the 400th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1997 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Christopher and Joshua. See all of 1997.
Names that rose and fell with Donte
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Samerpeak 1994
- Nikolauspeak 1994
- Nicolauspeak 1998
- Delvonpeak 1994
- Johnathanpeak 1990
- Rashawnpeak 1995
- Dontaypeak 1990
- Rashonpeak 1994
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.