Dontae
Dontae was given to 41 boys in 2025, #3,005 among boys’ names; 5,951 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,760 Americans named Dontae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 18 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dontae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dontae?
#3,005 among boys’ names, 2025
Dontae fell from #1,643 in 2015 to #3,005 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 50.6 to 24.0 per million.
219 babies in 1996, the peak
Dontae peaked in 1996, when 219 boys were given it, #717 among boys’ names. The 41 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,005 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 42 | #2,968 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 42 | #2,964 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 48 | #2,726 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 55 | #2,445 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 64 | #2,169 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,137 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,088 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 85 | #1,792 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,070 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 97 | #1,643 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 86 | #1,754 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 85 | #1,725 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 107 | #1,502 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 133 | #1,286 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 126 | #1,351 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 164 | #1,126 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 147 | #1,200 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 164 | #1,117 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 163 | #1,082 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 149 | #1,104 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 144 | #1,095 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 170 | #958 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 165 | #966 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 141 | #1,042 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 150 | #986 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 169 | #892 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 180 | #822 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 187 | #790 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 219 | #717 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 134 | #957 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 125 | #992 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 163 | #824 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 165 | #813 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 167 | #794 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 194 | #731 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 156 | #792 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 128 | #839 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 142 | #773 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 105 | #887 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 125 | #796 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 100 | #880 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 107 | #845 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 102 | #887 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 92 | #936 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 73 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 70 | #1,061 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 59 | #1,156 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 48 | #1,292 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 39 | #1,433 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 31 | #1,638 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 26 | #1,805 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 18 | #2,250 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,413 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,854 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,772 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,074 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dontae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dontae has been given almost only to boys: 17 girls in 57 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dontae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dontae, and how old are they?
5,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 5,951 Americans ever recorded as Dontae. The median Dontae alive today is 27 years old; half are between 18 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 4,177 people named Dontae (46 women and girls, 4,131 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,540 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 | 367 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,130 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,420 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 842 |
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 Dontae born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 5 | #1,909 | 1.3× |
Where Dontae is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dontae is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1969 it was given 1.7 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 Dontae 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 28,971 babies since 1880, Dontae is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 145 babies (28%), 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 Dontae
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 Dontae and names like it
- Compare Dontae and DonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDontae peaked in 1996.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dontae since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Dontae.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dontae alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.