Meaning not yet researched.
Dionte: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #806 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #806 in 1993; #4,899 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dionte in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,899 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #806.
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Dionte: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 boys in 2025. Peak: #806 in 1993 · most boys in one year: 172 (1993).
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Dionte, making it the 4,899th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,474 places from #7,373 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 11 boys named Dionte in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #806, reached in 1993. That year also had the most boys given the name: 172. For comparison, it was #3,911 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dionte in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 3,169 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,362 babies named Dionte.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 233 US boys were named Dionte; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 85,404 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Deonte (8,239 babies since 1880), Deante (2,721 babies since 1880) and Diante (1,396 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dianthe 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: Dianthe (13).
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 Dionte in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 20 | #4,899 |
| 2024 | — | — | 11 | #7,373 |
| 2023 | — | — | 15 | #6,008 |
| 2022 | — | — | 24 | #4,337 |
| 2021 | — | — | 24 | #4,278 |
| 2020 | — | — | 29 | #3,670 |
| 2019 | — | — | 27 | #3,918 |
| 2018 | — | — | 25 | #4,119 |
| 2017 | — | — | 30 | #3,610 |
| 2016 | — | — | 28 | #3,802 |
| 2015 | — | — | 27 | #3,911 |
| 2014 | — | — | 31 | #3,475 |
| 2013 | — | — | 27 | #3,776 |
| 2012 | — | — | 34 | #3,249 |
| 2011 | — | — | 40 | #2,915 |
| 2010 | — | — | 42 | #2,834 |
| 2009 | — | — | 40 | #2,963 |
| 2008 | — | — | 57 | #2,300 |
| 2007 | — | — | 49 | #2,543 |
| 2006 | — | — | 59 | #2,188 |
| 2005 | — | — | 63 | #1,991 |
| 2004 | — | — | 57 | #2,083 |
| 2003 | — | — | 71 | #1,723 |
| 2002 | — | — | 72 | #1,650 |
| 2001 | — | — | 85 | #1,453 |
| 2000 | — | — | 127 | #1,109 |
| 1999 | — | — | 102 | #1,230 |
| 1998 | — | — | 103 | #1,197 |
| 1997 | — | — | 127 | #1,008 |
| 1996 | — | — | 139 | #936 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,064 | 148 | #906 |
| 1994 | — | — | 146 | #903 |
| 1993 | — | — | 172 | #806 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,883 | 163 | #826 |
| 1991 | — | — | 136 | #902 |
| 1990 | — | — | 116 | #971 |
| 1989 | — | — | 121 | #924 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,723 | 89 | #1,050 |
| 1987 | — | — | 79 | #1,083 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,415 | 64 | #1,193 |
| 1985 | — | — | 38 | #1,650 |
| 1984 | — | — | 47 | #1,385 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,711 | 49 | #1,330 |
| 1982 | — | — | 31 | #1,827 |
| 1981 | — | — | 31 | #1,824 |
| 1980 | — | — | 26 | #2,073 |
| 1979 | — | — | 20 | #2,402 |
| 1978 | — | — | 19 | #2,398 |
| 1977 | — | — | 28 | #1,834 |
| 1976 | — | — | 11 | #3,323 |
| 1975 | — | — | 9 | #3,728 |
| 1974 | — | — | 10 | #3,388 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,107 |
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).