Jontae
Jontae was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,396 among boys’ names; 1,055 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Jontae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 19 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jontae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jontae?
#7,396 among boys’ names, 2025
Jontae rose from #9,134 in 2015 to #7,396 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 6.4 per million.
45 babies in 2000, the peak
Jontae peaked in 2000, when 45 babies were given it (33 boys, #2,768 among boys’ names). The 11 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 11 | #7,396 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 5 | #13,184 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 9 | #8,554 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 16 | #5,655 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 5 | #12,989 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 7 | #10,245 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 11 | #7,348 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 14 | #6,170 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 9 | #8,455 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 8 | #9,134 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | under 5 | 9 | #8,441 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 23 | #4,243 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 23 | #4,314 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 16 | #5,543 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 26 | #3,948 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 21 | #4,661 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 38 | #3,074 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 41 | #2,892 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 32 | #3,347 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 25 | #3,765 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 28 | #3,402 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 31 | #3,068 | |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,417 | 26 | #3,399 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 30 | #3,020 | |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,252 | 33 | #2,768 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,928 | 37 | #2,428 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,683 | 30 | #2,744 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,010 | 23 | #3,205 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,133 | 24 | #3,065 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,455 | 19 | #3,484 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 23 | #3,057 | |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,322 | 15 | #4,118 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,981 | 24 | #2,874 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 16 | #3,725 | |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,801 | 18 | #3,381 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,315 | 23 | #2,729 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,035 | 11 | #4,298 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,750 | 14 | #3,420 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,926 | 14 | #3,340 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,714 | 14 | #3,297 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,693 | 14 | #3,188 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,593 | 7 | #5,179 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,100 | 9 | #4,398 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 10 | #3,988 | |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,581 | 9 | #4,307 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 6 | #5,695 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 6 | #5,406 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 7 | #4,842 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 6 | #5,258 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jontae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,055 Americans recorded as Jontae, 17% are girls and 83% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jontae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jontae, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,055 Americans ever recorded as Jontae. The median Jontae alive today is 27 years old; half are between 19 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 806 people named Jontae (187 women and girls, 619 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 991 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 37 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 369 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 495 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 126 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 3,822 babies since 1880, Jontae is the second most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 20 babies (55%), the 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 Jontae
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 Jontae and names like it
- Compare Jontae and JonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJontae peaked in 2000.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jontae since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Jontae.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jontae alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.