Meaning not yet researched.
Jonte: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,545 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,545 in 1997; #8,560 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jonte in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,560 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #1,545.
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Jonte: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,545 in 1997 · most boys in one year: 67 (1997).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Jonte, making it the 8,560th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,802 places from #10,362 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 7 boys named Jonte in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,545, reached in 1997. That year also had the most boys given the name: 67. For comparison, it was #4,962 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Jonte in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #3,947, reached in 1988. That year also had the most girls given the name: 23. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jonte in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 22 babies. In all, 1,489 US babies have been given the name, 15% of them girls and 85% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 539 babies named Jonte.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 107 US boys were named Jonte; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Johnte and Juante 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Johnte (182), Juante (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 Jonte 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 | — | — | 9 | #8,560 |
| 2024 | — | — | 7 | #10,362 |
| 2023 | — | — | 5 | #13,121 |
| 2022 | — | — | 8 | #9,391 |
| 2021 | — | — | 12 | #6,880 |
| 2020 | — | — | 9 | #8,375 |
| 2019 | — | — | 9 | #8,505 |
| 2018 | — | — | 14 | #6,165 |
| 2017 | — | — | 16 | #5,654 |
| 2016 | — | — | 18 | #5,222 |
| 2015 | — | — | 19 | #4,962 |
| 2014 | — | — | 9 | #8,448 |
| 2013 | — | — | 13 | #6,428 |
| 2012 | — | — | 20 | #4,784 |
| 2011 | — | — | 18 | #5,085 |
| 2010 | — | — | 15 | #5,879 |
| 2009 | — | — | 25 | #4,100 |
| 2008 | — | — | 22 | #4,467 |
| 2007 | — | — | 27 | #3,835 |
| 2006 | — | — | 31 | #3,416 |
| 2005 | — | — | 22 | #4,127 |
| 2004 | — | — | 37 | #2,814 |
| 2003 | — | — | 27 | #3,404 |
| 2002 | — | — | 26 | #3,405 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,344 | 38 | #2,547 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,955 | 45 | #2,209 |
| 1999 | — | — | 36 | #2,492 |
| 1998 | — | — | 49 | #1,971 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,016 | 67 | #1,545 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,139 | 46 | #1,947 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,461 | 37 | #2,194 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,161 | 47 | #1,841 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,085 | 55 | #1,629 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,243 | 51 | #1,686 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,924 | 43 | #1,848 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,630 | 24 | #2,737 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,182 | 37 | #1,970 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,947 | 29 | #2,167 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,214 | 26 | #2,244 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,047 | 24 | #2,328 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,813 | 24 | #2,257 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,338 | 24 | #2,199 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,607 | 26 | #2,049 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,344 | 23 | #2,237 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,702 | 26 | #2,067 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,704 | 21 | #2,404 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,412 | 15 | #2,958 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,000 | 16 | #2,732 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,918 | 16 | #2,727 |
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).