girls:
17 births since 1981
#5699 (0th percentile)
boys:
5.8k births since 1969
#1545 (66th percentile)
overall:
5.9k births since 1969
#3546 (54th percentile)
The name Dontae is the #3,546 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,861 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 54.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,545 (66.3% percentile) for all time with 5,844 births since 1969. For girls, it ranks #5,699 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 17 births since 1981.
Dontae first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (1969 for boys and 1981 for girls).
The name Dontae has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dontae reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 26.4% percentile (ranked #573) with 109 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 109 births per million (ranked 26.4% percentile). Despite a low point around 2008, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Dontae ranks #874 for boys (4.1% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 21.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dontae reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #807) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dontae".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Dontae. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.6% confident that Dontae is pronounced as dahn-TAY, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAHN-tay, at 20.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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