In 2025, 10 US boys were named Dontavious, making it the 7,811th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,257 places from #6,554 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 13 boys named Dontavious in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,099, reached in 1991. That year also had the most boys given the name: 99. For comparison, it was #4,008 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dontavious in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1980 with 7 babies. In all, 1,912 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 712 babies named Dontavious.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 198 US boys were named Dontavious; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 170,808 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Dontavius, Dontavis and Dontevious are summarised on this page.