# Dante (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dante/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Italian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈdɑnteɪ/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 52,053 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 51,587 / 466 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,293, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Dànte, a reduced form of Durànte.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 10 | 8,302 |
| 1997 | 15 | 6,242 |
| 1998 | 24 | 4,519 |
| 1999 | 12 | 7,843 |
| 2000 | 8 | 10,979 |
| 2001 | 11 | 8,909 |
| 2002 | 9 | 10,431 |
| 2003 | 12 | 8,644 |
| 2005 | 8 | 12,102 |
| 2007 | 7 | 14,274 |
| 2010 | 7 | 13,820 |
| 2011 | 12 | 9,296 |
| 2012 | 5 | 17,518 |
| 2016 | 6 | 14,773 |
| 2017 | 5 | 16,474 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,305 | 266 |
| 2012 | 1,251 | 279 |
| 2013 | 1,208 | 287 |
| 2014 | 1,110 | 314 |
| 2015 | 1,077 | 322 |
| 2016 | 1,011 | 344 |
| 2017 | 1,081 | 317 |
| 2018 | 1,074 | 315 |
| 2019 | 1,099 | 308 |
| 2020 | 1,110 | 301 |
| 2021 | 1,081 | 310 |
| 2022 | 1,084 | 310 |
| 2023 | 1,062 | 313 |
| 2024 | 1,069 | 322 |
| 2025 | 1,104 | 308 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 3 | 3,848 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3,912 |
| 2004 | 3 | 4,598 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 99 | 401 |
| 2012 | 100 | 405 |
| 2013 | 94 | 432 |
| 2014 | 94 | 429 |
| 2015 | 87 | 465 |
| 2016 | 82 | 493 |
| 2017 | 83 | 488 |
| 2018 | 68 | 549 |
| 2019 | 89 | 454 |
| 2020 | 82 | 475 |
| 2021 | 71 | 543 |
| 2022 | 84 | 472 |
| 2023 | 81 | 490 |
| 2024 | 61 | 622 |
| 2025 | 84 | 462 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: دانتي
- Armenian: Դանթե, Դանտե
- Bulgarian: Да́нте
- Chinese: 丹蒂
- Dutch: Dante
- French: Dante
- Georgian: დანტე
- Greek: Δάντης
- Hebrew: דנטה
- Hindi: दांते
- Hungarian: Dante
- Italian: Dante
- Japanese: ダンテ
- Korean: 단테
- Lithuanian: Dantė
- Polish: Dante
- Portuguese: Dante
- Russian: Да́нте
- Spanish: Dante

## People named Dante

- Dante Alighieri, Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator (1828-1882)
- Dante, Brazilian association football player
- Dante Basco, American actor and rapper
- Dante Exum, Australian basketball player (born 1995)
- Michael Dante DiMartino, American animation director
- Dante Amaral, Brazilian volleyball player
- Dante Cunningham, American basketball player (born 1987)
- Dante Vanzeir, Belgian association football player
- Dante Caputo, Argentine politician (1943-2018)
- Dante Rigo, Belgian professional football player
- Dante Fabbro, Canadian ice hockey player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.