Dante

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Dante boys named Dante

By the numbers

Total US births

52,053

Estimated living today

49,000

Median age today

21

Peak year

1998

Best rank

201st

Rank in 2025

308th

First recorded

1908

Girls / boys

466 / 51,587

How old the living Dantes are

born that year still alive today

Of the 52,053 babies given the name since 1908, about 49,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 20,000 of them are children and 620 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 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 Italian

a reduced form of Durànte.

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

Notable Dantes

• Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator
• Dante (born 1983)Brazilian association football player
• Dante Basco (born 1975)American actor and rapper
• Dante Exum (born 1995)Australian basketball player
• Michael Dante DiMartino (born 1974)American animation director
• Dante Amaral (born 1980)Brazilian volleyball player
• Dante Ferretti (born 1943)Italian production designer, art director and costume designer

People named Dante with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Dante is most common

• CA6,716
• TX5,059
• NY4,426
• PA3,429
• FL2,700
• NJ2,434
• IL1,926
• OH1,845
• MA1,724
• MI1,436

Relative to how many babies each state records, Dante is most concentrated in Nevada (2.2×), Rhode Island (2.1×), Colorado (1.9×), New Jersey (1.8×).

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

Names of 1998

The most popular boys’ names the year Dante peaked:

• Michael
• Jacob
• Matthew
• Joshua
• Christopher
• Nicholas

All the names of 1998

Dante elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Dante: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Dante is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.02% of children were given it – 70 of them.

Dante: rank by region

In 2025, Dante was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.

In 2023, Dante was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Dante was given 2 times or more in 5 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Dante appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (163rd) and Province of East Flanders (264th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Dante by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Dante among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Dante lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 2,381 men called Dante were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 47 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 5 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Daniel
• Danielle
• Danny
• Dana
• Dan
• Daniela
• Dane
• Daniella
• Danna
• Danica
• Dannie
• Dani

Dante against another name

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

• Dante vs Daniel
• Dante vs Danielle
• Dante vs Danny
• Dante vs Dana
• Dante vs Dan
• Dante vs Daniela

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