Dontez
Dontez is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 199345 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1973
- 1,018people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,018 boys have been named Dontez in the United States since 1973, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1993, with 45 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 1998, and the 1990s alone account for 33%.
By decade
In 1993, its biggest year
Dontez was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1993 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Tyler. See all of 1993.
Names that rose and fell with Dontez
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Javarispeak 1990
- Kalinpeak 1994
- Breonpeak 1994
- Rayshawnpeak 2006
- Markesepeak 1995
- Rashaadpeak 1995
- Dontaepeak 1996
- Martezpeak 1992
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.