Dante

Girl · recorded 1968–2017

  • 2017last recorded
  • 1998best year

Most popular in 1998.

Last recorded in 2017. Fewer than five girls a year have been given it since, so it's a true rarity.

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Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Dante.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1968

071419681980199320052017

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.
See the 43 recorded years as a table
Dante, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
YearPer million
19684
19699
19703
19715
19728
19733
19749
19758
19765
197713
19786
19798
19807
19818
19826
19837
19847
19856
19869
19879
19885
19893
19905
19918
19924
19939
19947
19959
19966
19979
199814
19997
20004
20016
20025
20037
20054
20074
20104
20117
20123
20163
20173

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Dante isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2017
5
Rank in 2017
#15,902
How rare
1 in 345,292 girls
Since 1968
466

Dante was last recorded in 2017. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1998, at 14 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Dante doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.