Dontavious

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 25 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
25
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Dontavious by the numbers

Dontavious was given to 25 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 99 babies in 1991, making it a 1990s name.

What we can tell you about Dontavious

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.

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Other names in the records within a letter or two of Dontavious. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

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