Dante — #322 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Dante

The Social Security Administration has registered 50,470 babies named Dante between 1908 and 2024, spanning 117 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dante currently holds the #322 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 1,670 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dante performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 12,474 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Dante shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6,545 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Dante in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dante in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 50,470 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.