Dontavia — unisex name

What the Data Says About Dontavia

The Social Security Administration has registered 118 babies named Dontavia between 1988 and 2019, spanning 32 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dontavia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 10 babies received it in a single year. Dontavia is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 11 additional births since 1991.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dontavia performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 47 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Dontavia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dontavia 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 118 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.