Dontavius is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Dontavius in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Dontavius in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Dontavius by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Dontavius ranks at #5,843. That means there are 5,842 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Dontavius.
In fact, the name Dontavius hardly fits the trend of first names for boys. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Dontavius wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1993, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,492, 55 parents chose it in 1993 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Dontavius, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Dontavius was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Dontavius a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 6,204, for a total of 11 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Dontavius seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Dontavius. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 451 Americans who bear this name. And these 451 men and boys named Dontavius live in no more than 7 different states, including for example Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and North Carolina. In the other 42 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Dontavius lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Dontavius and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Dontavius relative to its male population is Georgia. And even there, only one male in 14,667 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Dontavius.
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 nine letters, the name Dontavius is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. 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.
If your name is Dontavius 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Dontavius, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Orange
Nut
Tiger
Apple
Violin
Igloo
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Dontavius
Dontavius
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Dontavius sounds like this:
