Dontay is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Dontay is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Dontay. In the SmartGenius ranking, Dontay is #3,537 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Dontay.
In fact, the name Dontay hardly fits the trend of first names for boys. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Dontay 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 1984, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,042, 62 parents chose it in 1984 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Dontay, 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 Dontay was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Dontay a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 5,277, for a total of 14 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 Dontay seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The odds of having a man or boy named Dontay in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Dontay is registered in 15 states, among which are California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois or Indiana. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Dontay live in Maryland, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 34,006 men and boys in Maryland for their name before you meet one who answers with Dontay.
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 six letters, the name Dontay is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are 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 Dontay 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 Dontay, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Dontay
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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Y
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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A
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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. Dontay sounds like this:
