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Dontay

#6,904 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Dontay has been given to 2,431 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #6,904 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 78 recorded.

Babies named Dontay, 2025

1 in 276,000

Dontay over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dontay: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dontay means

Dontay is a given name.

The naming story behind Dontay

Wikidata records Dontay as a given name. The entity identifier is Q108529518, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,431 boys were recorded with the name Dontay between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 78 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,148 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,043 in 2020 to #6,904 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,715 in 2015 to #6,904 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Dontay?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,904
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dontay 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dontay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dontays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dontay was born before 1996 — so the typical Dontay is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
27.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,431
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 27.3% of all recorded uses (663).

Is Dontay 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
+1,000
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,861
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,189
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.41×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.4%
Peak was 1990 (78)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,148
1983

Spellings of Dontay

Dontay is not the most common spelling — Donte is, with 19.9% against Dontay's 3.1%.

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 Dontay is used

Across 1910–2025, Dontay was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 151,086 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 100,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  8. 8Georgia1 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. Dontay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dontay around the world

Where Dontay ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2010–2010
    #2,676
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    2004–2004
    #404
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dontay in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Dontay. Linked forms have their own page here.

Donte

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Dontay by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,904
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,861
Best rank ever
#1,148
1983
Peak year
1990
78 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,431
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Dontay

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

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Names with a curve like Dontay

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dontay, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Dontay

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

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