Meaning not yet researched.
Dontae: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #718 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #718 in 1996; #3,006 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dontae in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,006 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #718.
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Dontae: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 boys in 2025. Peak: #718 in 1996 · most boys in one year: 219 (1996).
In 2025, 41 US boys were named Dontae, making it the 3,006th most common boys’ name of the year, down 37 places from #2,969 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 42 boys named Dontae in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #718, reached in 1996. That year also had the most boys given the name: 219. For comparison, it was #1,643 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dontae in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 6 babies. In all, 5,951 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,709 babies named Dontae.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 580 US boys were named Dontae; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 85. In 2025 that was about 1 in 41,660 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Donta (3,990 babies since 1880) and Dontay (2,431 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dontaye, Dontai and Dunta 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: Dontaye (392), Dontai (183), Dunta (10), Duntae (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 Dontae 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 | — | — | 41 | #3,006 |
| 2024 | — | — | 42 | #2,969 |
| 2023 | — | — | 42 | #2,965 |
| 2022 | — | — | 48 | #2,728 |
| 2021 | — | — | 55 | #2,446 |
| 2020 | — | — | 64 | #2,169 |
| 2019 | — | — | 67 | #2,138 |
| 2018 | — | — | 68 | #2,089 |
| 2017 | — | — | 85 | #1,792 |
| 2016 | — | — | 68 | #2,070 |
| 2015 | — | — | 97 | #1,643 |
| 2014 | — | — | 86 | #1,754 |
| 2013 | — | — | 85 | #1,726 |
| 2012 | — | — | 107 | #1,502 |
| 2011 | — | — | 133 | #1,286 |
| 2010 | — | — | 126 | #1,351 |
| 2009 | — | — | 164 | #1,126 |
| 2008 | — | — | 147 | #1,200 |
| 2007 | — | — | 164 | #1,117 |
| 2006 | — | — | 163 | #1,082 |
| 2005 | — | — | 149 | #1,105 |
| 2004 | — | — | 144 | #1,096 |
| 2003 | — | — | 170 | #959 |
| 2002 | — | — | 165 | #967 |
| 2001 | — | — | 141 | #1,043 |
| 2000 | — | — | 150 | #988 |
| 1999 | — | — | 169 | #894 |
| 1998 | — | — | 180 | #823 |
| 1997 | — | — | 187 | #792 |
| 1996 | — | — | 219 | #718 |
| 1995 | — | — | 134 | #960 |
| 1994 | — | — | 125 | #996 |
| 1993 | — | — | 163 | #826 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,199 | 165 | #815 |
| 1991 | — | — | 167 | #798 |
| 1990 | — | — | 194 | #734 |
| 1989 | — | — | 156 | #795 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,728 | 128 | #840 |
| 1987 | — | — | 142 | #773 |
| 1986 | — | — | 105 | #887 |
| 1985 | — | — | 125 | #796 |
| 1984 | — | — | 100 | #880 |
| 1983 | — | — | 107 | #845 |
| 1982 | — | — | 102 | #887 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,849 | 92 | #936 |
| 1980 | — | — | 73 | #1,058 |
| 1979 | — | — | 70 | #1,061 |
| 1978 | — | — | 59 | #1,156 |
| 1977 | — | — | 48 | #1,292 |
| 1976 | — | — | 39 | #1,433 |
| 1975 | — | — | 31 | #1,639 |
| 1974 | — | — | 26 | #1,805 |
| 1973 | — | — | 18 | #2,252 |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,415 |
| 1971 | — | — | 12 | #2,856 |
| 1970 | — | — | 12 | #2,773 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,075 |
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).