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The first name 
Dontavis

Dontavis is a first name for boys.

Dontavis – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Dontavis has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Dontavis. That means that a boy named Dontavis is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Dontavis.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Dontavis

Dontavis -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

The first name Dontavis is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 50 Americans in total bear this name. And these 50 men are located in only three states: Florida, Georgia and North Carolina (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Dontavis and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Dontavis in relation to it’s male population is Georgia. And yet even there, only one in 153,248 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Dontavis present.

Dontavis has 8 letters 
and begins with a D

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.

With eight letters, the name Dontavis is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Dontavis

If your name is Dontavis and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Dontavis

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Dontavis, you can simply say:

Dinosaur

Orange

Nut

Tiger

Apple

Violin

Igloo

Sun

This is how the name Dontavis is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Dontavis in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Dontavis

Dontavis

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Dontavis

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Dontavis is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

D
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N
T
A
V
I
S

Have you ever waved the name Dontavis

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

D
O
N
T
A
V
I
S

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Dontavis sounds like this: