Meaning not yet researched.
Donte: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 77 in 2025. Its best rank was #400 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #400 in 1997; #1,979 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Donte in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,979 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #400.
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Donte: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 77 boys in 2025. Peak: #400 in 1997 · most boys in one year: 589 (1997).
In 2025, 77 US boys were named Donte, making it the 1,979th most common boys’ name of the year, down 18 places from #1,961 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 80 boys named Donte in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #400, reached in 1997. That year also had the most boys given the name: 589. For comparison, it was #1,201 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Donte in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 7 babies. In all, 15,832 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 5,024 babies named Donte.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,030 US boys were named Donte; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 134. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,183 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Donte ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,324 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dante (52,053 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Duante and Dunte 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: Duante (135), Dunte (23).
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 Donte in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,324 | #782 |
| California | 7 | #2,045 | #1,332 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,141 | #1,967 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 77 | #1,979 |
| 2024 | — | — | 80 | #1,961 |
| 2023 | — | — | 73 | #2,052 |
| 2022 | — | — | 79 | #1,954 |
| 2021 | — | — | 109 | #1,584 |
| 2020 | — | — | 118 | #1,462 |
| 2019 | — | — | 112 | #1,519 |
| 2018 | — | — | 117 | #1,483 |
| 2017 | — | — | 134 | #1,337 |
| 2016 | — | — | 131 | #1,359 |
| 2015 | — | — | 154 | #1,201 |
| 2014 | — | — | 165 | #1,147 |
| 2013 | — | — | 166 | #1,108 |
| 2012 | — | — | 229 | #905 |
| 2011 | — | — | 208 | #954 |
| 2010 | — | — | 221 | #914 |
| 2009 | — | — | 296 | #773 |
| 2008 | — | — | 281 | #783 |
| 2007 | — | — | 315 | #729 |
| 2006 | — | — | 300 | #720 |
| 2005 | — | — | 328 | #656 |
| 2004 | — | — | 318 | #648 |
| 2003 | — | — | 362 | #596 |
| 2002 | — | — | 338 | #601 |
| 2001 | — | — | 366 | #568 |
| 2000 | — | — | 426 | #523 |
| 1999 | — | — | 411 | #518 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,902 | 472 | #470 |
| 1997 | — | — | 589 | #400 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,279 | 517 | #436 |
| 1995 | — | — | 453 | #478 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,066 | 452 | #476 |
| 1993 | — | — | 500 | #439 |
| 1992 | — | — | 531 | #420 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,920 | 533 | #424 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,527 | 536 | #424 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,974 | 503 | #414 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,778 | 468 | #416 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,935 | 425 | #425 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,287 | 352 | #463 |
| 1985 | — | — | 370 | #444 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,402 | 311 | #475 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,342 | 329 | #461 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,036 | 296 | #495 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,939 | 290 | #491 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,396 | 267 | #527 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,299 | 265 | #517 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,065 | 240 | #533 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,481 | 231 | #550 |
| 1976 | — | — | 154 | #662 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,460 | 143 | #693 |
| 1974 | — | — | 117 | #751 |
| 1973 | — | — | 107 | #770 |
| 1972 | — | — | 90 | #847 |
| 1971 | — | — | 71 | #967 |
| 1970 | — | — | 45 | #1,240 |
| 1969 | — | — | 37 | #1,305 |
| 1968 | — | — | 25 | #1,591 |
| 1967 | — | — | 13 | #2,271 |
| 1966 | — | — | 15 | #2,068 |
| 1965 | — | — | 9 | #2,844 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,210 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,121 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,211 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,441 |
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).