girls:
226 births since 1977
#5490 (4th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1977
#3363 (27th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1977
#6273 (19th percentile)
The name Jonte is the #6,273 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,472 recorded births since 1977. This represents the 18.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,363 (26.6% percentile) for all time with 1,246 births since 1977. For girls, it ranks #5,490 (3.9% percentile) for all time with 226 births since 1977.
Jonte first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1977 .
The name Jonte has been given predominantly to boys, with 84.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Jonte were boys.
For boys, Jonte reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 7.8% percentile (ranked #730) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 34 births per million (ranked 7.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jonte ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 8.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jonte reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #790) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jonte".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Jonte. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.5% confident that Jonte is pronounced as JAHN-tay, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JAHN-tee, at 23.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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