girls:
466 births since 1968
#5250 (8th percentile)
boys:
49.4k births since 1908
#501 (89th percentile)
overall:
49.9k births since 1908
#1076 (86th percentile)
The name Dante is the #1,076 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 49,856 recorded births since 1908. This represents the 86.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #501 (89.1% percentile) for all time with 49,390 births since 1908. For girls, it ranks #5,250 (8.1% percentile) for all time with 466 births since 1968.
Dante first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1908 (1908 for boys and 1968 for girls).
The name Dante has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dante reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 75.1% percentile (ranked #199) with 824 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 824 births per million (ranked 75.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Dante ranks #300 for boys (67.1% percentile) with 578 births per million, which is 70.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dante reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #855) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dante".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Dante. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.6% confident that Dante is pronounced as DAHN-tay, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAN-tee, at 16.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like D AA1 N T EY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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