boys:
2.4k births since 1971
#2578 (44th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1971
#5415 (30th percentile)
The name Dontay is the #5,415 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,408 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 30.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 30.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,578 (43.8% percentile) for all time with 2,408 births since 1971.
Dontay first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (first recorded for boys in 1971).
For boys, Dontay reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 9.5% percentile (ranked #696) with 36 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 36 births per million (ranked 9.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1999, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dontay ranks #899 for boys (1.3% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 25.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dontay".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Dontay. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.0% confident that Dontay is pronounced as DAHN-tay, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAWN-tay, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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