Dontaye — boys' name

What the Data Says About Dontaye

The Social Security Administration has registered 392 babies named Dontaye between 1973 and 2019, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dontaye currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 18 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dontaye performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 112 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Dontaye shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Michigan, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Dontaye in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dontaye 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 392 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.