girls:
137 births since 1975
#5579 (2nd percentile)
boys:
15.5k births since 1961
#936 (80th percentile)
overall:
15.7k births since 1961
#2084 (73rd percentile)
The name Donte is the #2,084 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,674 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 73.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #936 (79.6% percentile) for all time with 15,537 births since 1961. For girls, it ranks #5,579 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 137 births since 1975.
Donte first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for boys and 1975 for girls).
The name Donte has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Donte reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 52.7% percentile (ranked #375) with 295 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 295 births per million (ranked 52.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1997, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Donte ranks #843 for boys (7.5% percentile) with 40 births per million, which is 13.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Donte reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #818) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Donte".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Donte", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 22 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Dante" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Dante..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Donte. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.0% confident that Donte is pronounced as DAHN-tay, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAHN-tee, at 27.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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