Dontay
Dontay was given to 12 boys in 2025, #6,904 among boys’ names; 2,431 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,340 Americans named Dontay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 20 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dontay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dontay?
#6,904 among boys’ names, 2025
Dontay fell from #3,715 in 2015 to #6,904 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.1 to 7.0 per million.
78 babies in 1990, the peak
Dontay peaked in 1990, when 78 boys were given it, #1,249 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,904 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,904 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 17 | #5,512 | 9.9 |
| 2022 | 15 | #5,933 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,525 | 12.6 |
| 2020 | 25 | #4,043 | 14.5 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,394 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,912 | 14.9 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,906 | 14.6 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,910 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,715 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 36 | #3,102 | 18.7 |
| 2013 | 33 | #3,282 | 17.4 |
| 2012 | 28 | #3,734 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 45 | #2,675 | 23.7 |
| 2010 | 55 | #2,333 | 28.7 |
| 2009 | 43 | #2,812 | 21.7 |
| 2008 | 46 | #2,693 | 22.5 |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,123 | 30.8 |
| 2006 | 57 | #2,228 | 27.7 |
| 2005 | 49 | #2,375 | 24.5 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,136 | 27.7 |
| 2003 | 59 | #1,962 | 29.9 |
| 2002 | 69 | #1,693 | 35.5 |
| 2001 | 63 | #1,779 | 32.4 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,092 | 24.4 |
| 1999 | 70 | #1,573 | 36.5 |
| 1998 | 64 | #1,624 | 33.5 |
| 1997 | 61 | #1,648 | 32.4 |
| 1996 | 68 | #1,481 | 35.9 |
| 1995 | 62 | #1,527 | 32.6 |
| 1994 | 59 | #1,563 | 30.5 |
| 1993 | 67 | #1,418 | 34.2 |
| 1992 | 62 | #1,470 | 31.0 |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,321 | 35.6 |
| 1990 | 78 | #1,249 | 38.0 |
| 1989 | 70 | #1,308 | 35.0 |
| 1988 | 58 | #1,354 | 30.3 |
| 1987 | 69 | #1,152 | 37.0 |
| 1986 | 37 | #1,697 | 20.1 |
| 1985 | 61 | #1,216 | 33.0 |
| 1984 | 62 | #1,154 | 34.4 |
| 1983 | 62 | #1,148 | 34.6 |
| 1982 | 41 | #1,520 | 22.6 |
| 1981 | 51 | #1,296 | 28.5 |
| 1980 | 49 | #1,346 | 27.5 |
| 1979 | 43 | #1,424 | 25.0 |
| 1978 | 34 | #1,623 | 20.7 |
| 1977 | 30 | #1,752 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 30 | #1,719 | 19.1 |
| 1975 | 32 | #1,599 | 20.5 |
| 1974 | 20 | #2,148 | 12.7 |
| 1973 | 20 | #2,066 | 12.8 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,567 | 8.6 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,084 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dontay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dontay has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dontay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dontay, and how old are they?
2,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,431 Americans ever recorded as Dontay. The median Dontay alive today is 30 years old; half are between 20 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 1,618 people named Dontay (38 women and girls, 1,580 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,272 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% 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 | 254 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 931 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 861 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 295 |
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 Dontay born?
The states with the most babies named Dontay are California, New York and Pennsylvania, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 140 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 136 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 101 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Maryland | 74 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Ohio | 69 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 66 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 54 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 26 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 23 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Dontay 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, Dontay is the fourth most given (8.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 145 babies (8.3%), the third 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 Dontay
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 Dontay and names like it
- Compare Dontay and DonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDontay peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dontay since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Dontay.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dontay alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.