How rare is the name Donte?

11,207 people in the United States have the first name Donte, about 1 in 26,950. It ranks #2,301 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

DONTE

#2,301

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
11,207
About
1 in 26,950
This common or more
79.3%
Who bears it

Of the 11,207 people named Donte, 79.4% reported their origin as Black, 7.9% as two or more races and 6.2% as Hispanic or Latino. 99.1% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Donte peaked in 1997, when 589 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19612025
Peak year
1997
Births that year
589
In 2025*
77 ▼87%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 15,832 babies have been given the name since 1961. 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.

Donte by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #942. The largest share of babies named Donte, 44%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1960s#5,730124
1970s#1,5421,493
1980s#9963,688
1990s#9425,024
2000s#1,4273,330
2010s#2,5141,637
2020s#3,839536
Baby boom 1946–640.2%
Generation X 1965–8011.8%
Millennials 1981–9644%
Generation Z 1997–1234.5%
2013 and later9.6%

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 Donte is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Donte has been most common in District of Columbia (6.6×), Maryland (5.8×), and Virginia (2.4×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.12×).

13,416 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 Donte

#2,299 Karlee · 11,216#2,300 Angelita · 11,209#2,302 Karol · 11,198#2,303 Lawson · 11,171

Spelled almost the same

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

#4,460 Dontae · 4,177#6,382 Donta · 2,523#45,183 Dontea · 151#53,155 Dontee · 102

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