Dontez
Dontez was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,128 among boys’ names; 1,026 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dontez by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dontez?
#9,128 among boys’ names, 2025
Dontez fell from #5,352 in 2015 to #9,128 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.9 to 4.7 per million.
45 babies in 1993, the peak
Dontez peaked in 1993, when 45 boys were given it, #1,851 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,128 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,803 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,708 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,843 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,741 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,832 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,172 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,117 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,866 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 19 | #4,988 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #5,352 | 8.9 |
| 2014 | 22 | #4,426 | 11.5 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,849 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,281 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,133 | 12.6 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,400 | 11.5 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,190 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,169 | 11.8 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,269 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,732 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 37 | #2,854 | 18.5 |
| 2004 | 24 | #3,759 | 12.1 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,649 | 12.1 |
| 2002 | 21 | #3,943 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,533 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 22 | #3,661 | 11.2 |
| 1999 | 33 | #2,626 | 17.2 |
| 1998 | 32 | #2,609 | 16.7 |
| 1997 | 31 | #2,558 | 16.4 |
| 1996 | 34 | #2,341 | 17.9 |
| 1995 | 26 | #2,782 | 13.7 |
| 1994 | 35 | #2,265 | 18.1 |
| 1993 | 45 | #1,851 | 22.9 |
| 1992 | 20 | #3,245 | 10.0 |
| 1991 | 44 | #1,800 | 21.8 |
| 1990 | 31 | #2,265 | 15.1 |
| 1989 | 25 | #2,556 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 32 | #2,001 | 16.7 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,748 | 10.2 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,812 | 9.8 |
| 1985 | 21 | #2,445 | 11.4 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,854 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,113 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,342 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,270 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,640 | 10.1 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,164 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,251 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,323 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,109 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,931 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,300 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dontez a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dontez has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dontez: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dontez, and how old are they?
An estimated 994 Americans named Dontez and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 17 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 686 people named Dontez (2 women and girls, 684 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 965 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.
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 Dontez born?
The states with the most babies named Dontez are Ohio, Michigan and Missouri, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 177 | not ranked | 4.2× |
| Michigan | 114 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Missouri | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Dontez is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dontez is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1973 it was given 4.2 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 Dontez with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dontez
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 Dontez and names like it
- Compare Dontez and JavarisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDontez peaked in 1993.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dontez since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Dontez.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dontez alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.