Meaning not yet researched.
Dante: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,104 in 2025. Its best rank was #200 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #200 in 1997; #308 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dante in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#308 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #200.
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Dante: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,104 boys in 2025. Peak: #200 in 1997 · most boys in one year: 1,670 (1998).
In 2025, 1,104 US boys were named Dante, making it the 308th most common boys’ name of the year, up 14 places from #322 in 2024. That is 35 more than the 1,069 boys named Dante in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #200, reached in 1997. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,670, in 1998. For comparison, it was #322 in 2015 and #1,145 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dante in 118 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1908 with 7 babies. In all, 52,053 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 12,529 babies named Dante.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,775 US boys were named Dante; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 1,110. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,547 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dante ranked highest in Rhode Island in 2025, at #186 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Donte (15,832 babies since 1880) and Daunte (1,568 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Daonte, Dantes and Dayonte are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Daonte (30), Dantes (16), Dayonte (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Dante in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 12 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | 6 | #186 | #201 |
| New Mexico | 10 | #198 | #239 |
| Connecticut | 16 | #211 | #163 |
| New Jersey | 45 | #212 | #221 |
| California | 171 | #217 | #279 |
| Florida | 97 | #218 | #319 |
| Nevada | 13 | #233 | #249 |
| Texas | 171 | #233 | #253 |
| Arizona | 34 | #236 | #255 |
| Montana | 5 | #244 | — |
| Massachusetts | 24 | #247 | #158 |
| New York | 72 | #266 | #304 |
| Pennsylvania | 45 | #266 | #225 |
| Colorado | 23 | #279 | #262 |
| Utah | 17 | #289 | #249 |
| Oklahoma | 16 | #295 | #425 |
| Idaho | 8 | #309 | #195 |
| Missouri | 20 | #331 | #443 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #345 | #356 |
| South Carolina | 15 | #354 | #376 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #363 | #365 |
| Georgia | 31 | #379 | #633 |
| Ohio | 28 | #390 | #379 |
| Kansas | 9 | #399 | #339 |
| Oregon | 9 | #411 | #362 |
| North Carolina | 26 | #419 | #422 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #430 | — |
| Illinois | 25 | #435 | #546 |
| Virginia | 17 | #456 | #433 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #461 | #509 |
| Indiana | 14 | #490 | #459 |
| Michigan | 17 | #492 | #683 |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #532 | #361 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #533 | — |
| Washington | 13 | #535 | #348 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #555 | #391 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #559 | #316 |
| Alabama | 8 | #587 | #577 |
| Maryland | 5 | #829 | #397 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 1,104 | #308 |
| 2024 | — | — | 1,069 | #322 |
| 2023 | — | — | 1,062 | #313 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,084 | #310 |
| 2021 | — | — | 1,081 | #310 |
| 2020 | — | — | 1,110 | #301 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,099 | #308 |
| 2018 | — | — | 1,074 | #315 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,474 | 1,081 | #317 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,773 | 1,011 | #344 |
| 2015 | — | — | 1,077 | #322 |
| 2014 | — | — | 1,110 | #314 |
| 2013 | — | — | 1,208 | #287 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,518 | 1,251 | #279 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,296 | 1,305 | #266 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,820 | 1,342 | #255 |
| 2009 | — | — | 1,139 | #290 |
| 2008 | — | — | 1,146 | #292 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,274 | 1,270 | #269 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,184 | #290 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,102 | 1,241 | #266 |
| 2004 | — | — | 1,209 | #271 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,644 | 1,310 | #252 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,431 | 1,268 | #257 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,909 | 1,355 | #248 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,979 | 1,352 | #248 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,843 | 1,415 | #232 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,519 | 1,670 | #201 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,242 | 1,590 | #200 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,302 | 978 | #283 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,034 | 819 | #321 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,219 | 786 | #323 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,732 | 772 | #328 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,688 | 659 | #360 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,017 | 680 | #356 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,019 | 639 | #365 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,844 | 551 | #395 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,845 | 508 | #389 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,901 | 473 | #400 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,019 | 444 | #406 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,120 | 398 | #429 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,984 | 398 | #415 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,903 | 362 | #431 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,013 | 433 | #390 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,028 | 424 | #395 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,997 | 387 | #418 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,158 | 393 | #401 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,512 | 367 | #402 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,644 | 373 | #404 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,461 | 296 | #454 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,223 | 311 | #451 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,511 | 255 | #498 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,705 | 203 | #556 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,581 | 255 | #492 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,126 | 196 | #588 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,251 | 222 | #545 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,654 | 174 | #591 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,391 | 146 | #626 |
| 1967 | — | — | 156 | #599 |
| 1966 | — | — | 137 | #632 |
| 1965 | — | — | 113 | #700 |
| 1964 | — | — | 122 | #699 |
| 1963 | — | — | 91 | #795 |
| 1962 | — | — | 103 | #750 |
| 1961 | — | — | 123 | #689 |
| 1960 | — | — | 76 | #871 |
| 1959 | — | — | 63 | #970 |
| 1958 | — | — | 70 | #903 |
| 1957 | — | — | 56 | #1,016 |
| 1956 | — | — | 61 | #959 |
| 1955 | — | — | 59 | #978 |
| 1954 | — | — | 51 | #1,048 |
| 1953 | — | — | 49 | #1,038 |
| 1952 | — | — | 46 | #1,069 |
| 1951 | — | — | 40 | #1,142 |
| 1950 | — | — | 39 | #1,145 |
| 1949 | — | — | 39 | #1,132 |
| 1948 | — | — | 38 | #1,162 |
| 1947 | — | — | 37 | #1,192 |
| 1946 | — | — | 35 | #1,181 |
| 1945 | — | — | 33 | #1,139 |
| 1944 | — | — | 29 | #1,240 |
| 1943 | — | — | 44 | #1,008 |
| 1942 | — | — | 25 | #1,391 |
| 1941 | — | — | 33 | #1,158 |
| 1940 | — | — | 21 | #1,481 |
| 1939 | — | — | 19 | #1,542 |
| 1938 | — | — | 22 | #1,448 |
| 1937 | — | — | 20 | #1,542 |
| 1936 | — | — | 24 | #1,364 |
| 1935 | — | — | 31 | #1,203 |
| 1934 | — | — | 36 | #1,102 |
| 1933 | — | — | 39 | #1,034 |
| 1932 | — | — | 39 | #1,078 |
| 1931 | — | — | 51 | #903 |
| 1930 | — | — | 53 | #918 |
| 1929 | — | — | 66 | #795 |
| 1928 | — | — | 81 | #703 |
| 1927 | — | — | 86 | #701 |
| 1926 | — | — | 51 | #956 |
| 1925 | — | — | 88 | #684 |
| 1924 | — | — | 76 | #773 |
| 1923 | — | — | 88 | #687 |
| 1922 | — | — | 106 | #625 |
| 1921 | — | — | 125 | #562 |
| 1920 | — | — | 66 | #827 |
| 1919 | — | — | 57 | #881 |
| 1918 | — | — | 61 | #844 |
| 1917 | — | — | 75 | #699 |
| 1916 | — | — | 72 | #702 |
| 1915 | — | — | 85 | #629 |
| 1914 | — | — | 55 | #688 |
| 1913 | — | — | 34 | #821 |
| 1912 | — | — | 34 | #739 |
| 1911 | — | — | 10 | #1,134 |
| 1910 | — | — | 13 | #880 |
| 1909 | — | — | 9 | #1,037 |
| 1908 | — | — | 7 | #1,135 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).