girls:
91 births since 1970
#5625 (2nd percentile)
boys:
3.9k births since 1964
#1989 (57th percentile)
overall:
4k births since 1964
#4365 (44th percentile)
The name Donta is the #4,365 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,966 recorded births since 1964. This represents the 43.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 43.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,989 (56.6% percentile) for all time with 3,875 births since 1964. For girls, it ranks #5,625 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 91 births since 1970.
Donta first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1964 (1964 for boys and 1970 for girls).
The name Donta has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Donta reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 17.7% percentile (ranked #626) with 67 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 70 births per million (ranked 17.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Donta ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 7.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Donta reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #749) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Donta".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Donta. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.3% confident that Donta is pronounced as DAHN-tuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAHN-tay, at 41.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like D AA1 N T AH0) 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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