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Dontavious

The boy's name Dontavious has been in the national records since 1980, with 1,912 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 7,679th. About 1,900 Dontaviouses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Dontavious

By the numbers

Total US births
1,912
Estimated living today
1,900
Median age today
25
Peak year
1991
Best rank
1,095th
Rank in 2025
7,679th
First recorded
1980

How old the living Dontaviouses are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,912 babies given the name since 1980, about 1,900 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 510 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin a coined name

the latter revised to accord with -ious.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Dontavious is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Dontavious is most concentrated in Georgia (18.1×), Mississippi (6.5×), Florida (5.9×), Alabama (3.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1991

The most popular boys’ names the year Dontavious peaked:

All the names of 1991

Related names

Dontavious against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.