Dante

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A male given name from Italian, presumably in honor of the poet Dante Alighieri

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/dante/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Dante is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 1.3K
  • PEPeru≈1 in 1.9K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈87,000 people, est.

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
449 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

DanteLatin(measured from records)
ДантеCyrillic(measured from records)
დანტეGeorgian(measured from records)
ΔάντηGreek(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Short form of Durante, from Latin durans 'enduring'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How Dante is read(measured from records)

Dante is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish58%

    contracción germánica de Durante/Durand, «el cuervo de Thor»

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • English32%

    A male given name from Italian, presumably in honor of the poet Dante Alighieri.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dante counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Dante is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#194≈87,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Dante116
US United States—40,0671 in 8.3K40KDante449
AR Argentina#279≈36,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K1.5KDante109
PE Peru#362≈17,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Dante89
IT Italy#800≈9,400 est.≈1 in 6.7K299Dante122
SE Sweden—4,5171 in 2.3K4.5KDante37
UY Uruguay#159≈1,500 est.≈1 in 2.3K—Dante48

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Dante is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Belgium

    Also written Danté, D'Ante, D'Anté

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Dant-E, Danté

  • Lao given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Philippines, Thailand, United States

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written ดันเต้, ดินเต, ดันเต่, Dánte, Dánté

  • Finnish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Sweden, Finland

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Danté, Däñtē

  • a separate given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Philippines, Ecuador

    Also written Dante', Danté, D̶a̶n̶t̶e̶, Dantë

  • Russian given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Ukraine, Peru

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Данте, Дантэ, Danté

  • Albanian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Albania

    Also written Danté

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Dante is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Short form of Durante, from Latin durans 'enduring'.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • $ Medieval personal name representing a contracted form of Durante ‘steadfast’. Nowadays it is bestowed in honour of the poet Dante Alighieri (1265- 1321).

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Italian, redução popular e coloquial de Durante

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In French, Diminutif latin de Durante; du latin durare, « durer ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

12001400160018002000Dante, b. 1265Dante Gabriel Rossetti, b. 1828Ferruccio Busoni, b. 1866Arnaldo Momigliano, b. 1908Dante Maggio, b. 1909Dante Ferretti, b. 1943Dante Spinotti, b. 1943Yasiin Bey, b. 1973Dante Basco, b. 1975Dante, b. 1983
  • Danteb. 1265FRFlorentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
  • Dante Gabriel Rossettib. 1828GBEnglish poet, illustrator, painter, and translator (1828-1882)
  • Ferruccio Busonib. 1866DEnot in their usual nameItalian composer, pianist, and conductor (1866–1924)
  • Arnaldo Momiglianob. 1908ITnot in their usual nameItalian historian of classical antiquity (1908–1987)
  • Dante Maggiob. 1909ITItalian actor (1909-1992)
  • Dante Ferrettib. 1943ITItalian production designer, art director and costume designer (born 1943)
  • Dante Spinottib. 1943ITItalian cinematographer
  • Yasiin Beyb. 1973USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper
  • Dante Bascob. 1975USAmerican actor and rapper
  • Danteb. 1983BRBrazilian association football player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Dante,Hi Dante, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 106 sources across 48 countries.

Official registers attesting Dante
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202040K#1,049
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—4.5K#652
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20202.4K—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20241.5K#104
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20251.1K—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)2015949—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)2015949—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020374#1,049
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)2024299#92

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Dante have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 87 thousand people named Dante in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dante.
Where does the name Dante come from?
Short form of Durante, from Latin durans 'enduring'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
Is Dante a male or female name?
Dante is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Dante mean?
In English, A male given name from Italian, presumably in honor of the poet Dante Alighieri.
How do you pronounce Dante?
A machine transcription gives /dante/ (IPA) for Spanish.
How common is the name Dante?
In the United States, the national register counted 40,067 people named Dante in 2020, about 1 in 8.3 thousand residents.
How common is Dante compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Dante is the 194th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dante” — the 194th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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