Dontaye
Dontaye was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 392 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dontaye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dontaye?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,660, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1990, the peak
Dontaye peaked in 1990, when 18 boys were given it, #3,342 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #12,660 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,787 | 2.7 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,633 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,692 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,636 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,313 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,371 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,204 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,353 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,366 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #11,919 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,316 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 12 | #5,962 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,847 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,762 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,439 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,675 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,777 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,728 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,275 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,172 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,285 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,387 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,056 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,342 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,088 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,527 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,658 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,983 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,420 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,293 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,623 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,670 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,235 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,525 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,262 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,278 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,835 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,930 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,193 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dontaye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dontaye has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dontaye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dontaye, and how old are they?
An estimated 377 Americans named Dontaye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 22 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 255 people named Dontaye (5 women and girls, 250 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 381 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 28,873 babies since 1880, Dontaye is the fifth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 145 babies recorded by SSA was a Dontaye (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Dontaye
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 Dontaye and names like it
- Compare Dontaye and DonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDontaye peaked in 1990.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dontaye since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Dontaye.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dontaye alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.