boys:
1k births since 1973
#3580 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1k births since 1973
#6726 (13th percentile)
The name Dontez is the #6,726 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,013 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 13.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,580 (21.9% percentile) for all time with 1,013 births since 1973.
Dontez first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (first recorded for boys in 1973). Birth data for Dontez is available in 50 out of the 51 years between 1973 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Dontez reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 5.2% percentile (ranked #729) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 22 births per million (ranked 5.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dontez ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 12.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dontez".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Dontez. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.8% confident that Dontez is pronounced as DAHN-tehz, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAHN-tayz, at 23.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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