Daunte
Daunte was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,460 among boys’ names; 1,568 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,530 Americans named Daunte and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 20 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daunte by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daunte?
#12,460 among boys’ names, 2025
Daunte fell from #6,409 in 2015 to #12,460 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 2.9 per million.
159 babies in 2001, the peak
Daunte peaked in 2001, when 159 boys were given it, #969 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,460 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,122 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,968 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,373 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,407 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,905 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,862 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,590 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,770 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,810 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,409 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,726 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,439 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 20 | #4,726 | 10.5 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,911 | 13.7 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,136 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 36 | #3,175 | 18.1 |
| 2008 | 45 | #2,723 | 22.1 |
| 2007 | 72 | #1,957 | 34.7 |
| 2006 | 87 | #1,644 | 42.3 |
| 2005 | 108 | #1,382 | 54.1 |
| 2004 | 96 | #1,446 | 48.4 |
| 2003 | 86 | #1,496 | 43.5 |
| 2002 | 82 | #1,514 | 42.2 |
| 2001 | 159 | #969 | 81.8 |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,430 | 43.8 |
| 1999 | 48 | #1,998 | 25.0 |
| 1998 | 37 | #2,355 | 19.4 |
| 1997 | 28 | #2,764 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,856 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 25 | #2,858 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,626 | 9.3 |
| 1993 | 21 | #3,161 | 10.7 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,129 | 10.5 |
| 1991 | 27 | #2,555 | 13.4 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,631 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 27 | #2,419 | 13.5 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,527 | 12.0 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,408 | 12.3 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,441 | 11.9 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,099 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,846 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,454 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,446 | 11.0 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,596 | 10.0 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,670 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,689 | 9.9 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,392 | 11.6 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,250 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,794 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,393 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Daunte a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daunte has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Daunte: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daunte, and how old are they?
1,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,568 Americans ever recorded as Daunte. The median Daunte alive today is 24 years old; half are between 20 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,203 people named Daunte (10 women and girls, 1,193 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,493 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 60 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 305 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,020 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 141 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 54,649 babies since 1880, Daunte is the second most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 1,109 babies (<1%), again the second 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 Daunte
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 Daunte and names like it
- Compare Daunte and DanteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDaunte peaked in 2001.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daunte since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Daunte.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daunte alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.