boys:
1.9k births since 1980
#2876 (37th percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1980
#5871 (24th percentile)
The name Dontavious is the #5,871 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,889 recorded births since 1980. This represents the 24.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,876 (37.3% percentile) for all time with 1,889 births since 1980.
Dontavious first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1980 (first recorded for boys in 1980).
For boys, Dontavious reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 12.4% percentile (ranked #666) with 47 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 47 births per million (ranked 12.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dontavious ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 14.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dontavious".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Dontavious. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 74.3% confident that Dontavious is pronounced as dahn-TAY-vee-uhs, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is duhn-TAY-vee-uhs, at 14.3% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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