Donte
Donte was given to 77 boys in 2025, #1,979 among boys’ names; 15,832 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,200 Americans named Donte and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 22 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Donte by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Donte?
#1,979 among boys’ names, 2025
Donte fell from #1,201 in 2015 to #1,979 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 80.3 to 45.1 per million.
589 babies in 1997, the peak
Donte peaked in 1997, when 589 boys were given it, #400 among boys’ names. The 77 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 77 | #1,979 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 80 | #1,961 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,051 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 79 | #1,953 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 109 | #1,584 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 118 | #1,462 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 112 | #1,519 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 117 | #1,483 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 134 | #1,337 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 131 | #1,359 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 154 | #1,201 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 165 | #1,147 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 166 | #1,108 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 229 | #905 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 208 | #954 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 221 | #914 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 296 | #773 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 281 | #783 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 315 | #729 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 300 | #720 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 328 | #656 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 318 | #648 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 362 | #596 | 0.18 |
| 2002 | 338 | #601 | 0.17 |
| 2001 | 366 | #568 | 0.19 |
| 2000 | 426 | #523 | 0.22 |
| 1999 | 411 | #518 | 0.21 |
| 1998 | 472 | #470 | 0.25 |
| 1997 | 589 | #400 | 0.31 |
| 1996 | 517 | #436 | 0.27 |
| 1995 | 453 | #478 | 0.24 |
| 1994 | 452 | #476 | 0.23 |
| 1993 | 500 | #439 | 0.25 |
| 1992 | 531 | #420 | 0.27 |
| 1991 | 533 | #424 | 0.26 |
| 1990 | 536 | #423 | 0.26 |
| 1989 | 503 | #414 | 0.25 |
| 1988 | 468 | #416 | 0.24 |
| 1987 | 425 | #425 | 0.23 |
| 1986 | 352 | #463 | 0.19 |
| 1985 | 370 | #444 | 0.20 |
| 1984 | 311 | #475 | 0.17 |
| 1983 | 329 | #461 | 0.18 |
| 1982 | 296 | #495 | 0.16 |
| 1981 | 290 | #491 | 0.16 |
| 1980 | 267 | #527 | 0.15 |
| 1979 | 265 | #517 | 0.15 |
| 1978 | 240 | #533 | 0.15 |
| 1977 | 231 | #550 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 154 | #662 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 143 | #693 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 117 | #751 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 107 | #770 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 90 | #847 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 71 | #967 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 45 | #1,240 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 37 | #1,305 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 25 | #1,590 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 13 | #2,270 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 15 | #2,067 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,843 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,209 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,120 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,210 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,440 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Donte a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Donte has been given almost only to boys: 137 girls in 65 years of records.
Girls and boys named Donte: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Donte, and how old are they?
15,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 15,832 Americans ever recorded as Donte. The median Donte alive today is 31 years old; half are between 22 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 11,207 people named Donte (99 women and girls, 11,108 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,883 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 20 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,690 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,630 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,370 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,500 |
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 Donte born?
The states with the most babies named Donte are California, Texas and North Carolina, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,045 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,141 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,324 | 1.4× |
Where Donte is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Donte is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1961 it was given 5.4 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 Donte 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 32,003 babies since 1880, Donte is the most given (49% of them). In 2025 it was given to 77 of their 158 babies (49%), again the most given.
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 Donte
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 Donte and names like it
- Compare Donte and DontaeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDonte peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Donte since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Donte.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Donte alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.