Dontay
Dontay is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 199078 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1971
- 2,418people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,418 boys have been named Dontay in the United States since 1971, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1990, with 78 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 1990s alone account for 27%.
By decade
In 1990, its biggest year
Dontay was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1990 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 1990.
Names that rose and fell with Dontay
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jovonpeak 1992
- Rashaunpeak 1998
- Rashonpeak 1994
- Jestinpeak 2001
- Johnathanpeak 1990
- Jovanpeak 1998
- Jerronpeak 1989
- Joshuahpeak 1989
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.