Dante
Dante was given to 1,104 boys in 2025, #308 among boys’ names; 52,053 Americans have been recorded with it since 1908 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 48,600 Americans named Dante and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 12 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dante by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dante mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dante is “a male given name from Italian, presumably in honor of the poet Dante Alighieri.”
Borrowed from Italian Dànte, a reduced form of Durànte.
/ˈdɑnteɪ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dante?
#308 among boys’ names, 2025
Dante rose from #322 in 2015 to #308 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.56 to 0.65 per 1,000.
1,694 babies in 1998, the peak
Dante peaked in 1998, when 1,694 babies were given it (1,670 boys, #201 among boys’ names). The 1,104 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,104 | #308 | 0.65 |
| 2024 | 1,069 | #322 | 0.62 |
| 2023 | 1,062 | #313 | 0.62 |
| 2022 | 1,084 | #310 | 0.62 |
| 2021 | 1,081 | #310 | 0.62 |
| 2020 | 1,110 | #301 | 0.64 |
| 2019 | 1,099 | #308 | 0.61 |
| 2018 | 1,074 | #315 | 0.59 |
| 2017 | 1,081 | #317 | 0.58 |
| 2016 | 1,011 | #344 | 0.53 |
Every recorded year (118)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,077 | #322 | 0.56 |
| 2014 | 1,110 | #314 | 0.58 |
| 2013 | 1,208 | #287 | 0.64 |
| 2012 | 1,251 | #279 | 0.66 |
| 2011 | 1,305 | #266 | 0.69 |
| 2010 | 1,342 | #255 | 0.70 |
| 2009 | 1,139 | #290 | 0.57 |
| 2008 | 1,146 | #292 | 0.56 |
| 2007 | 1,270 | #269 | 0.61 |
| 2006 | 1,184 | #290 | 0.58 |
| 2005 | 1,241 | #266 | 0.62 |
| 2004 | 1,209 | #271 | 0.61 |
| 2003 | 1,310 | #252 | 0.66 |
| 2002 | 1,268 | #257 | 0.65 |
| 2001 | 1,355 | #248 | 0.70 |
| 2000 | 1,352 | #248 | 0.69 |
| 1999 | 1,415 | #232 | 0.74 |
| 1998 | 1,670 | #201 | 0.87 |
| 1997 | 1,590 | #200 | 0.84 |
| 1996 | 978 | #283 | 0.52 |
| 1995 | 819 | #321 | 0.43 |
| 1994 | 786 | #323 | 0.41 |
| 1993 | 772 | #328 | 0.39 |
| 1992 | 659 | #360 | 0.33 |
| 1991 | 680 | #356 | 0.34 |
| 1990 | 639 | #365 | 0.31 |
| 1989 | 551 | #395 | 0.28 |
| 1988 | 508 | #389 | 0.27 |
| 1987 | 473 | #400 | 0.25 |
| 1986 | 444 | #406 | 0.24 |
| 1985 | 398 | #429 | 0.22 |
| 1984 | 398 | #415 | 0.22 |
| 1983 | 362 | #431 | 0.20 |
| 1982 | 433 | #390 | 0.24 |
| 1981 | 424 | #395 | 0.24 |
| 1980 | 387 | #418 | 0.22 |
| 1979 | 393 | #401 | 0.23 |
| 1978 | 367 | #402 | 0.22 |
| 1977 | 373 | #404 | 0.23 |
| 1976 | 296 | #454 | 0.19 |
| 1975 | 311 | #451 | 0.20 |
| 1974 | 255 | #498 | 0.16 |
| 1973 | 203 | #556 | 0.13 |
| 1972 | 255 | #492 | 0.16 |
| 1971 | 196 | #588 | 0.11 |
| 1970 | 222 | #545 | 0.12 |
| 1969 | 174 | #591 | 0.10 |
| 1968 | 146 | #626 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 156 | #599 | 0.09 |
| 1966 | 137 | #632 | 0.08 |
| 1965 | 113 | #700 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 122 | #699 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 91 | #795 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 103 | #749 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 123 | #688 | 0.06 |
| 1960 | 76 | #870 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 63 | #969 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 70 | #902 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 56 | #1,015 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 61 | #958 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 59 | #977 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 51 | #1,047 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 49 | #1,037 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 46 | #1,068 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 40 | #1,141 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 39 | #1,144 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 39 | #1,131 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 38 | #1,161 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 37 | #1,191 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 35 | #1,180 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 33 | #1,138 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 29 | #1,240 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 44 | #1,008 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,391 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 33 | #1,158 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,481 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,542 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,448 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,542 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 24 | #1,364 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 31 | #1,203 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 36 | #1,102 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 39 | #1,034 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 39 | #1,078 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 51 | #903 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 53 | #918 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 66 | #795 | 0.06 |
| 1928 | 81 | #703 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 86 | #701 | 0.08 |
| 1926 | 51 | #956 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 88 | #684 | 0.08 |
| 1924 | 76 | #773 | 0.07 |
| 1923 | 88 | #687 | 0.08 |
| 1922 | 106 | #625 | 0.10 |
| 1921 | 125 | #562 | 0.11 |
| 1920 | 66 | #827 | 0.06 |
| 1919 | 57 | #881 | 0.06 |
| 1918 | 61 | #844 | 0.06 |
| 1917 | 75 | #699 | 0.08 |
| 1916 | 72 | #702 | 0.08 |
| 1915 | 85 | #629 | 0.10 |
| 1914 | 55 | #688 | 0.08 |
| 1913 | 34 | #821 | 0.07 |
| 1912 | 34 | #739 | 0.08 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,133 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 13 | #880 | 0.07 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,037 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,134 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dante a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dante has been given almost only to boys: 466 girls in 118 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dante: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dante, and how old are they?
48,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 52,053 Americans ever recorded as Dante. The median Dante alive today is 22 years old; half are between 12 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 40,067 people named Dante (374 women and girls, 39,693 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 42,982 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 106 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 834 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,690 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 9,070 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 20,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 14,100 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Dante born?
The states with the most babies named Dante are California, Texas and Florida, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 171 | #217 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 171 | #233 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 97 | #218 | 1.0× |
| New York | 72 | #266 | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 45 | #266 | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 45 | #212 | 1.6× |
| Arizona | 34 | #236 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 31 | #379 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 28 | #390 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 26 | #419 | 0.6× |
Where Dante is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dante is most over-represented in Rhode Island: since 1910 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dante with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 54,649 babies since 1880, Dante is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,104 of their 1,109 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dante
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dante and names like it
- Compare Dante and DaunteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDante peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dante since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Dante: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Dante.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dante alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.