Meaning not yet researched.
Dontay: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,148 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,148 in 1983; #6,908 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dontay in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,908 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #1,148.
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Dontay: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,148 in 1983 · most boys in one year: 78 (1990).
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Dontay, making it the 6,908th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,001 places from #7,909 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 10 boys named Dontay in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,148, reached in 1983. The most boys given the name in a single year was 78, in 1990. For comparison, it was #3,716 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dontay in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 7 babies. In all, 2,431 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 663 babies named Dontay.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 199 US boys were named Dontay; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 142,340 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dontae (5,951 babies since 1880) and Donta (3,990 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 Dontay 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 | — | — | 12 | #6,908 |
| 2024 | — | — | 10 | #7,909 |
| 2023 | — | — | 17 | #5,517 |
| 2022 | — | — | 15 | #5,937 |
| 2021 | — | — | 22 | #4,529 |
| 2020 | — | — | 25 | #4,047 |
| 2019 | — | — | 17 | #5,398 |
| 2018 | — | — | 27 | #3,916 |
| 2017 | — | — | 27 | #3,910 |
| 2016 | — | — | 27 | #3,911 |
| 2015 | — | — | 29 | #3,716 |
| 2014 | — | — | 36 | #3,104 |
| 2013 | — | — | 33 | #3,284 |
| 2012 | — | — | 28 | #3,737 |
| 2011 | — | — | 45 | #2,676 |
| 2010 | — | — | 55 | #2,334 |
| 2009 | — | — | 43 | #2,813 |
| 2008 | — | — | 46 | #2,694 |
| 2007 | — | — | 64 | #2,123 |
| 2006 | — | — | 57 | #2,229 |
| 2005 | — | — | 49 | #2,379 |
| 2004 | — | — | 55 | #2,140 |
| 2003 | — | — | 59 | #1,966 |
| 2002 | — | — | 69 | #1,696 |
| 2001 | — | — | 63 | #1,783 |
| 2000 | — | — | 48 | #2,096 |
| 1999 | — | — | 70 | #1,576 |
| 1998 | — | — | 64 | #1,627 |
| 1997 | — | — | 61 | #1,651 |
| 1996 | — | — | 68 | #1,484 |
| 1995 | — | — | 62 | #1,532 |
| 1994 | — | — | 59 | #1,568 |
| 1993 | — | — | 67 | #1,423 |
| 1992 | — | — | 62 | #1,475 |
| 1991 | — | — | 72 | #1,327 |
| 1990 | — | — | 78 | #1,254 |
| 1989 | — | — | 70 | #1,313 |
| 1988 | — | — | 58 | #1,358 |
| 1987 | — | — | 69 | #1,153 |
| 1986 | — | — | 37 | #1,698 |
| 1985 | — | — | 61 | #1,217 |
| 1984 | — | — | 62 | #1,155 |
| 1983 | — | — | 62 | #1,148 |
| 1982 | — | — | 41 | #1,521 |
| 1981 | — | — | 51 | #1,296 |
| 1980 | — | — | 49 | #1,346 |
| 1979 | — | — | 43 | #1,424 |
| 1978 | — | — | 34 | #1,623 |
| 1977 | — | — | 30 | #1,752 |
| 1976 | — | — | 30 | #1,720 |
| 1975 | — | — | 32 | #1,600 |
| 1974 | — | — | 20 | #2,149 |
| 1973 | — | — | 20 | #2,067 |
| 1972 | — | — | 14 | #2,568 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,086 |
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).