Damontae
Masculine
This family has four endings and they arrived in order. Damonte, Damonta, Damontay and Damontae are one name, and which one is on the certificate dates the birth to within a few years.
How old is the name Damontae?
Damontae first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Damontae alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 600 people named Damontae are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Damontae most popular?
Damontae peaked in 1999, reaching #2795 nationally. Today it ranks #10695, 7,900 places below that high. See the whole 1999 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Damontae
When a name ends in a stressed vowel, English spelling has no good option, because the language does not normally allow it. Parents therefore try each of the available solutions in turn, and the order is legible in the records: the bare -te comes first, borrowed from French and Spanish; -ta follows, treating the vowel as an open one; -tay writes the diphthong plainly; and -tae, with the digraph, comes last, once the plain spellings have become familiar. Nothing about the sound changes across the sequence. What changes is which convention feels fresh, and that turns a spelling into a date stamp: a Damonte and a Damontae are the same name given about a decade apart.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Damontae joins the Da- prefix to a -montae element related to Monte and to the -onte family. The four endings, -te, -ta, -tay and -tae, are spellings of one sound. The peak of this spelling is 1999.
Pronouncing Damontae
duh-MON-tay
Three syllables, stress on the second. The final syllable is sounded as ay in every spelling of the family.
Nicknames for Damontae
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1990
- Most boys named
- 200739 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2795reached in 1999
- Change vs 2024
- −40.0%6 in 2025, from 10
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Damontae in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Damonte in English — spelling variant
- Damontay in English — spelling variant
Damontaes among us
people named Damontae are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 284,679 born in 2025 was named Damontae
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Thorne test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Damontae's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Thorne climbed just as high around 1956, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Thorne's path sketches the road Damontae is walking now.
Damontae sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Damontae beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Damontae in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Monte works as a short form and is a name of its own.
- The stress pattern is fixed, so it is rarely mispronounced.
- Three syllables with a strong central stress.
- Four spellings of the ending compete.
- It has no documented meaning.
- The 1999 peak dates this spelling.
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Frequently asked
- How many Damontaes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Damontae are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Damontae in 2025?
- Damontae ranks #10695 among US boy names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Damontae?
- About 1 in every 284,679 US boys born in 2025 was named Damontae — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Damontae with classmates?
- Damontae will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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