Dontai
Dontai was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,529 among boys’ names; 183 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dontai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dontai?
#12,529 among boys’ names, 2025
Dontai rose from #12,559 in 2015 to #12,529 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 2.9 per million.
13 babies in 1989, the peak
Dontai peaked in 1989, when 13 boys were given it, #4,087 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,529 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,541 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,559 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,768 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,205 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 5 | #13,043 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,038 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,917 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,833 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,361 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | #8,693 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,753 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,048 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,122 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,205 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,171 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,277 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,472 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,087 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,590 | 2.6 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,138 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,667 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,631 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,713 | 3.4 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,319 | 3.7 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,976 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dontai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dontai has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dontai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dontai, and how old are they?
An estimated 176 Americans named Dontai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 21 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 150 people named Dontai (8 women and girls, 142 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 170 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Dontai?
Dontai is a less common spelling of Dontay: SSA has recorded 183 Dontai and 2,431 Dontay since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 28,971 babies since 1880, Dontai is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 145 babies (3.4%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Dontai
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 Dontai and names like it
- Compare Dontai and DontayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDontai peaked in 1989.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Dontai.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dontai alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.