Dontez

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 15 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
15
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Dontez by the numbers

Dontez was given to 15 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 45 babies in 1993, making it a 1990s name.

What we can tell you about Dontez

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 Dontez. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Donteenduring or lasting; a form of Dante132 in the US (2017)
  • Danteenduring or lasting; diminutive of Durante1,074 in the US (2017)
  • Donzelyoung nobleman or squire8 in the US (2017)
  • Dontae82 in the US (2017)
  • Deonte72 in the US (2017)
  • Donta31 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Dontez

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