Dontavius
Dontavius was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,427 among boys’ names; 1,070 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Dontavius and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 20 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dontavius by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dontavius?
#8,427 among boys’ names, 2025
Dontavius fell from #8,212 in 2015 to #8,427 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 4.7 to 5.3 per million.
59 babies in 1997, the peak
Dontavius peaked in 1997, when 59 boys were given it, #1,672 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,427 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,257 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,003 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,388 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,841 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,831 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,630 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,811 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,150 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,321 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #8,212 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,178 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,669 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,404 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,239 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 25 | #4,022 | 13.0 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,797 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,558 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,714 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,555 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,510 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 32 | #3,094 | 16.1 |
| 2003 | 27 | #3,379 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 36 | #2,649 | 18.5 |
| 2001 | 31 | #2,942 | 16.0 |
| 2000 | 40 | #2,390 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 33 | #2,625 | 17.2 |
| 1998 | 38 | #2,315 | 19.9 |
| 1997 | 59 | #1,672 | 31.3 |
| 1996 | 45 | #1,961 | 23.8 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,031 | 21.5 |
| 1994 | 38 | #2,130 | 19.7 |
| 1993 | 55 | #1,618 | 28.0 |
| 1992 | 53 | #1,641 | 26.5 |
| 1991 | 43 | #1,835 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 39 | #1,949 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 32 | #2,163 | 16.0 |
| 1988 | 27 | #2,260 | 14.1 |
| 1987 | 20 | #2,654 | 10.7 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,708 | 10.3 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,861 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 15 | #2,993 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,687 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,341 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,084 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,083 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dontavius a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dontavius 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 Dontavius: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dontavius, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,070 Americans ever recorded as Dontavius. The median Dontavius alive today is 28 years old; half are between 20 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 630 people named Dontavius (2 women and girls, 628 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 988 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% 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 | 448 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 438 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 147 |
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 Dontavius born?
The states with the most babies named Dontavius are Georgia, Florida and Alabama, with 91% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 303 | not ranked | 9.3× |
| Florida | 81 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Alabama | 26 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Mississippi | 17 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Tennessee | 13 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| South Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Dontavius is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dontavius is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1980 it was given 9.3 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 Dontavius 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, Dontavius is the second most given (32% 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 Dontavius
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 Dontavius and names like it
- Compare Dontavius and DontaviousBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDontavius peaked in 1997.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dontavius since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Dontavius.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dontavius alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.