Dionte
Dionte was given to 20 boys in 2025, #4,898 among boys’ names; 3,169 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,060 Americans named Dionte and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 23 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dionte by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dionte mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dionte is “a male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Deonte.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dionte?
#4,898 among boys’ names, 2025
Dionte fell from #3,909 in 2015 to #4,898 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.1 to 11.7 per million.
172 babies in 1993, the peak
Dionte peaked in 1993, when 172 boys were given it, #804 among boys’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #4,898 | 11.7 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,368 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,003 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,333 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 24 | #4,274 | 13.7 |
| 2020 | 29 | #3,667 | 16.8 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,915 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 25 | #4,115 | 13.8 |
| 2017 | 30 | #3,606 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,801 | 14.8 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #3,909 | 14.1 |
| 2014 | 31 | #3,473 | 16.1 |
| 2013 | 27 | #3,774 | 14.3 |
| 2012 | 34 | #3,246 | 17.9 |
| 2011 | 40 | #2,914 | 21.1 |
| 2010 | 42 | #2,833 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 40 | #2,962 | 20.2 |
| 2008 | 57 | #2,299 | 27.9 |
| 2007 | 49 | #2,543 | 23.6 |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,187 | 28.7 |
| 2005 | 63 | #1,987 | 31.5 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,079 | 28.7 |
| 2003 | 71 | #1,720 | 35.9 |
| 2002 | 72 | #1,647 | 37.1 |
| 2001 | 85 | #1,449 | 43.7 |
| 2000 | 127 | #1,107 | 64.7 |
| 1999 | 102 | #1,228 | 53.1 |
| 1998 | 103 | #1,194 | 53.9 |
| 1997 | 127 | #1,006 | 67.4 |
| 1996 | 139 | #934 | 73.4 |
| 1995 | 148 | #903 | 77.7 |
| 1994 | 146 | #900 | 75.6 |
| 1993 | 172 | #804 | 87.7 |
| 1992 | 163 | #824 | 81.6 |
| 1991 | 136 | #898 | 67.3 |
| 1990 | 116 | #967 | 56.5 |
| 1989 | 121 | #921 | 60.5 |
| 1988 | 89 | #1,048 | 46.5 |
| 1987 | 79 | #1,082 | 42.3 |
| 1986 | 64 | #1,192 | 34.8 |
| 1985 | 38 | #1,649 | 20.6 |
| 1984 | 47 | #1,384 | 26.0 |
| 1983 | 49 | #1,329 | 27.3 |
| 1982 | 31 | #1,826 | 17.1 |
| 1981 | 31 | #1,823 | 17.3 |
| 1980 | 26 | #2,073 | 14.6 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,401 | 11.6 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,397 | 11.6 |
| 1977 | 28 | #1,834 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,321 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,726 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,386 | 6.4 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,105 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dionte a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dionte has been given almost only to boys: 26 girls in 53 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dionte: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dionte, and how old are they?
3,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,169 Americans ever recorded as Dionte. The median Dionte alive today is 30 years old; half are between 23 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 2,271 people named Dionte (46 women and girls, 2,225 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,980 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 | 117 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,520 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,110 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 316 |
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 Dionte born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 5 | #1,343 | 3.1× |
Where Dionte is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dionte is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1971 it was given 3.1 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 Dionte 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 5,792 babies since 1880, Dionte is the most given (55% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 35 babies (57%), 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 Dionte
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 Dionte and names like it
- Compare Dionte and DianteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDionte peaked in 1993.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dionte since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Dionte: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Dionte.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dionte alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.