Dante

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Primarily a boy's name · Unisex โ€” 12% girls / 88% boys

Origin: French

Meaning

Dante is an Italian given name and surname. Etymologically, it is short for an old given name, Durante, and was first made popular by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, whose real name was Durante. Notable people with the name include:

From Wikipedia

Dante first appears in the data in 1965 and has been recorded in 31 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 2009 with 61 babies (rank #245 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Dante

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Dante yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

761
Total babies (all years)
31
Years in the data
61
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Boys

Famous people named Dante

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19652#875
19662#901
19741#1,042
19751#1,165
19882#1,108
19892#1,132
19902#1,148
19912#1,162
19922#1,175
19933#1,081
19943#1,103
19955#924
19966#876
19979#777
199812#690
199924#503
200022#538
200132#436
200232#424
200336#400
200435#400
200547#320
200644#323
200733#386
200841#336
200961#245
201038#332
201132#364
201250#261
201345#278
201446#277