# Donte (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/donte/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 15,832 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 15,695 / 137 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 312, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 6 | 9,299 |
| 1980 | 6 | 9,396 |
| 1981 | 9 | 6,939 |
| 1982 | 9 | 7,036 |
| 1983 | 6 | 9,342 |
| 1984 | 7 | 8,402 |
| 1986 | 11 | 6,287 |
| 1987 | 10 | 6,935 |
| 1988 | 11 | 6,778 |
| 1989 | 8 | 8,974 |
| 1990 | 7 | 10,527 |
| 1991 | 6 | 11,920 |
| 1994 | 5 | 14,066 |
| 1996 | 6 | 12,279 |
| 1998 | 6 | 12,902 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 208 | 954 |
| 2012 | 229 | 905 |
| 2013 | 166 | 1,108 |
| 2014 | 165 | 1,147 |
| 2015 | 154 | 1,201 |
| 2016 | 131 | 1,359 |
| 2017 | 134 | 1,337 |
| 2018 | 117 | 1,483 |
| 2019 | 112 | 1,519 |
| 2020 | 118 | 1,462 |
| 2021 | 109 | 1,584 |
| 2022 | 79 | 1,954 |
| 2023 | 73 | 2,052 |
| 2024 | 80 | 1,961 |
| 2025 | 77 | 1,979 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 18 | 1,342 |
| 2012 | 9 | 2,270 |
| 2013 | 9 | 2,216 |
| 2014 | 11 | 1,935 |
| 2015 | 12 | 1,902 |
| 2016 | 10 | 2,175 |
| 2017 | 9 | 2,324 |
| 2018 | 7 | 2,693 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2020 | 6 | 2,960 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,451 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,529 |
| 2023 | 9 | 2,325 |
| 2024 | 7 | 2,921 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3,256 |

## People named Donte

- Donte DiVincenzo, American basketball player (born 1997)
- Donte' Greene, American basketball player (born 1988)
- Donte Grantham, American basketball player (born 1995)
- Donte Whitner, American football player (born 1985)

## 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.