How rare is the name Dante?

40,067 people in the United States have the first name Dante, about 1 in 7,538. It ranks #1,049 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

DANTE

#1,049

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
40,067
About
1 in 7,538
This common or more
70.7%
Who bears it

Of the 40,067 people named Dante, 30.4% reported their origin as White, 28.9% as Hispanic or Latino and 26.5% as Black. 99.1% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Dante peaked in 1998, when 1,694 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19082025
Peak year
1998
Births that year
1,694
In 2025*
1,104 ▼35%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 52,053 babies have been given the name since 1908. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Dante by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #525. The largest share of babies named Dante, 40.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1900s#3,84016
1910s#1,575496
1920s#1,459833
1930s#2,311334
1940s#2,548334
1950s#2,321534
1960s#1,5961,262
1970s#1,0382,975
1980s#8724,492
1990s#56010,145
2000s#52512,529
2010s#58411,593
2020s#6186,510
Greatest Generation 1901–272.3%
Silent Generation 1928–451.3%
Baby boom 1946–642.3%
Generation X 1965–807.9%
Millennials 1981–9618.3%
Generation Z 1997–1240.7%
2013 and later27.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Dante is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Dante has been most common in Nevada (2.3×), Rhode Island (2.1×), and Colorado (1.9×), and least common in North Dakota (0.19×).

48,478 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Dante

#1,047 Rowan · 40,085#1,048 Cassie · 40,082#1,050 Julius · 40,007#1,051 Janie · 39,941

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Dante, most common first.

#10,884 Daunte · 1,203#22,184 Dantae · 451#26,490 Danta · 351#36,633 Danute · 216

Also a last name

As a last name, Dante ranks #28,704 of 156,621, with 882 people. See Dante as a last name

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