Dontay
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 27 babies a year in the US.
Dontay by the numbers
Dontay was given to 27 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 78 babies in 1990, making it a 1990s name.
What we can tell you about Dontay
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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