Meaning not yet researched.
Donta: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #770 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #770 in 1978; #7,810 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Donta in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,810 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #770.
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Donta: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 boys in 2025. Peak: #770 in 1978 · most boys in one year: 141 (1991).
In 2025, 10 US boys were named Donta, making it the 7,810th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,549 places from #6,261 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 14 boys named Donta in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #770, reached in 1978. The most boys given the name in a single year was 141, in 1991. For comparison, it was #4,590 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Donta in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 6 babies. In all, 3,990 US babies have been given the name, 2.3% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,106 babies named Donta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 221 US boys were named Donta; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 38. In 2025 that was about 1 in 170,808 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dontae (5,951 babies since 1880) and Dontay (2,431 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Donta 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 | — | — | 10 | #7,810 |
| 2024 | — | — | 14 | #6,261 |
| 2023 | — | — | 10 | #7,871 |
| 2022 | — | — | 19 | #5,077 |
| 2021 | — | — | 25 | #4,143 |
| 2020 | — | — | 22 | #4,460 |
| 2019 | — | — | 25 | #4,144 |
| 2018 | — | — | 26 | #4,022 |
| 2017 | — | — | 32 | #3,463 |
| 2016 | — | — | 38 | #3,076 |
| 2015 | — | — | 21 | #4,590 |
| 2014 | — | — | 29 | #3,637 |
| 2013 | — | — | 38 | #2,968 |
| 2012 | — | — | 33 | #3,319 |
| 2011 | — | — | 51 | #2,449 |
| 2010 | — | — | 44 | #2,749 |
| 2009 | — | — | 44 | #2,768 |
| 2008 | — | — | 41 | #2,898 |
| 2007 | — | — | 67 | #2,055 |
| 2006 | — | — | 56 | #2,257 |
| 2005 | — | — | 57 | #2,139 |
| 2004 | — | — | 51 | #2,253 |
| 2003 | — | — | 62 | #1,892 |
| 2002 | — | — | 52 | #2,072 |
| 2001 | — | — | 67 | #1,719 |
| 2000 | — | — | 75 | #1,575 |
| 1999 | — | — | 67 | #1,611 |
| 1998 | — | — | 94 | #1,281 |
| 1997 | — | — | 82 | #1,354 |
| 1996 | — | — | 87 | #1,267 |
| 1995 | — | — | 77 | #1,342 |
| 1994 | — | — | 77 | #1,334 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,213 | 116 | #1,025 |
| 1992 | — | — | 124 | #970 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,919 | 141 | #890 |
| 1990 | — | — | 130 | #904 |
| 1989 | — | — | 129 | #888 |
| 1988 | — | — | 126 | #847 |
| 1987 | — | — | 92 | #993 |
| 1986 | — | — | 111 | #862 |
| 1985 | — | — | 103 | #891 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,448 | 112 | #828 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,274 | 110 | #834 |
| 1982 | — | — | 103 | #877 |
| 1981 | — | — | 97 | #906 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,383 | 103 | #882 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,857 | 100 | #872 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,536 | 120 | #770 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,752 | 110 | #814 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,690 | 77 | #951 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,096 | 97 | #844 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,394 | 85 | #870 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,683 | 71 | #957 |
| 1972 | — | — | 50 | #1,157 |
| 1971 | — | — | 23 | #1,878 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,318 | 19 | #2,080 |
| 1969 | — | — | 20 | #1,878 |
| 1968 | — | — | 11 | #2,610 |
| 1967 | — | — | 10 | #2,644 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,100 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,049 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,727 |
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).