Dontavious
Dontavious was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,807 among boys’ names; 1,912 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,860 Americans named Dontavious and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 18 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dontavious by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dontavious mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dontavious is “a male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
Blend of Donte + Octavius, the latter revised to accord with -ious.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dontavious?
#7,807 among boys’ names, 2025
Dontavious fell from #4,006 in 2015 to #7,807 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 13.6 to 5.9 per million.
99 babies in 1991, the peak
Dontavious peaked in 1991, when 99 boys were given it, #1,093 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,807 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,549 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,999 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,261 | 10.3 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,033 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,088 | 21.4 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,035 | 14.5 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,437 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 26 | #4,012 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 35 | #3,245 | 18.4 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #4,006 | 13.6 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,818 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 28 | #3,683 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,728 | 23.2 |
| 2011 | 34 | #3,257 | 17.9 |
| 2010 | 51 | #2,438 | 26.6 |
| 2009 | 53 | #2,414 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 48 | #2,597 | 23.5 |
| 2007 | 51 | #2,482 | 24.6 |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,189 | 28.7 |
| 2005 | 50 | #2,337 | 25.0 |
| 2004 | 49 | #2,319 | 24.7 |
| 2003 | 65 | #1,818 | 32.9 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,097 | 26.3 |
| 2001 | 72 | #1,631 | 37.1 |
| 2000 | 74 | #1,586 | 37.7 |
| 1999 | 55 | #1,803 | 28.6 |
| 1998 | 65 | #1,604 | 34.0 |
| 1997 | 69 | #1,510 | 36.6 |
| 1996 | 63 | #1,577 | 33.3 |
| 1995 | 62 | #1,526 | 32.6 |
| 1994 | 68 | #1,421 | 35.2 |
| 1993 | 84 | #1,235 | 42.8 |
| 1992 | 86 | #1,209 | 43.1 |
| 1991 | 99 | #1,093 | 49.0 |
| 1990 | 61 | #1,433 | 29.7 |
| 1989 | 34 | #2,071 | 17.0 |
| 1988 | 47 | #1,556 | 24.6 |
| 1987 | 36 | #1,801 | 19.3 |
| 1986 | 29 | #2,018 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 24 | #2,244 | 13.0 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,514 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,288 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,325 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,246 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,082 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dontavious a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dontavious has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dontavious: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dontavious, and how old are they?
1,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,912 Americans ever recorded as Dontavious. The median Dontavious alive today is 26 years old; half are between 18 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 1,328 people named Dontavious (1 woman or girl, 1,327 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,789 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 704 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 874 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 277 |
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 Dontavious born?
The states with the most babies named Dontavious are Georgia, Florida and Mississippi, with 80% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 631 | not ranked | 10.7× |
| Florida | 252 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Mississippi | 103 | not ranked | 5.3× |
| Tennessee | 90 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Alabama | 82 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| North Carolina | 29 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| South Carolina | 21 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 7 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Arkansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Dontavious is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dontavious is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1980 it was given 10.7 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 Dontavious 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,341 babies since 1880, Dontavious is the most given (57% of them).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dontavious | 1,912 | 10 | 1991 |
| Dontavius | 1,070 | 9 | 1997 |
| Dontavis | 359 | under 5 | 1991 |
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 Dontavious
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 Dontavious and names like it
- Compare Dontavious and DontaviusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDontavious peaked in 1991.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dontavious since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Dontavious: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Dontavious.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dontavious alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.