Dantae
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 3 babies a year in England and Wales.
Dantae by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Dantae. In the US, 13 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 33 babies in 1999, making it a 1990s name.
What we can tell you about Dantae
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Dantae. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Danteenduring or lasting; diminutive of Durante1,074 in the US (2017)
- Dontae82 in the US (2017)
- Deantae5 in the US (2017)
- Donteenduring or lasting; a form of Dante132 in the US (2017)
- Danniegod is my judge; diminutive of Daniel29 in the US (2017)
- Dauntea form of Dante, enduring or lasting12 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Dantae
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