Delante
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 11 babies a year in the US.
Delante by the numbers
Delante was given to 11 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 44 babies in 1992, making it a 1990s name.
What we can tell you about Delante
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 Delante. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Devantebeloved; a form of David76 in the US (2017)
- Deante31 in the US (2017)
- Delonte15 in the US (2017)
- Danteenduring or lasting; diminutive of Durante1,074 in the US (2017)
- Devontebeloved; a form of David, respelled with -onte suffix135 in the US (2017)
- Delanoof the alder tree; from the plain47 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Delante
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