Dontavious

#7,807 in 2025Boys' name

Blend of Donte and Octavius

Dontavious has been given to 1,912 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #7,807 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 99 recorded.

Babies named Dontavious, 2025

1 in 332,000

Dontavious over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dontavious: meaning, origin, and history

Blend of Donte and Octavius

coinages

What Dontavious means

Dontavious is a blend of Donte and Octavius.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Blend of Donte + Octavius, the latter revised to accord with -ious.

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Origin, language, and formation

Dontavious is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Dontavious is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Donte and Octavius.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,912 boys were recorded with the name Dontavious between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 99 in 1991; its best national rank was #1,093 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,088 in 2020 to #7,807 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,006 in 2015 to #7,807 in 2025.

How common is Dontavious?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 332,000; 10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 171,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #7,807; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 229,791 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Dontavious sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dontavious. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dontaviouss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dontavious was born before 2000 — so the typical Dontavious is around 25 today.

Median birth year: 2000; About 25 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 37.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 47.4%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 1,912; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 37.2% of all recorded uses (712).

Is Dontavious rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −1,258; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −4,719; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −3,801; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.38×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 10.1%; Peak was 1991 (99)
Years since peak: 34; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 33.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,093; 1991

Spellings of Dontavious

Dontavious is the most-used spelling, taking 27.4% of the 6,977 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Dontavious27.4%1,912
Octavious23.9%1,669
Dontavius15.3%1,070
Montavious14.4%1,002
Kentavious10.8%757
Antavious8.1%567

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dontavious is used

Across 1910–2025, Dontavious was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 37,073 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Georgia1 in 7,692
2Mississippi1 in 20,000
3Florida1 in 25,000
4Alabama1 in 33,333
5Tennessee1 in 50,000
6North Carolina1 in 100,000
7South Carolina1 in 100,000
8Arkansas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dontavious has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dontavious by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #7,807
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 4,719
Best rank ever: #1,093; 1991
Peak year: 1991; 99 that year
First recorded: 1980
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 1,912
Count in 2025: 10

Names similar to Dontavious

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Dontavious

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

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For a brother

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