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Dante
Pronounced /ˈdænti/
Rank in 2024
#322
Born in 2024
1,067
Peak year
1998 · #201
Origin
Italian
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,067 boys were named Dante, about 1 in every 1,608.
- It peaked in 1998 with 1,670 babies, ranked #201.
- It first shows up in the records in 1908.
- 50,470 boys have been named Dante since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Dante per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.7Gen Z1997–12
- 0.6Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 1,198 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Silent: 666 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,198 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 3,984 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Millennials: 9,323 babies, 0.31 per 1,000. Gen Z: 21,046 babies, 0.67 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 13,055 babies, 0.60 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Borrowed from Italian Dànte, a reduced form of Durànte.
- A male given name from Italian, presumably in honor of the poet Dante Alighieri.
- Origin
- Italian
- Say it
- /ˈdænti/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Dante, CC BY-SA 4.0.