as a First Name
(Italian) name bestowed in honour of the medieval poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), also used in the English-speaking world. As a medieval given name Dante was a contracted form of Durante ‘steadfast, enduring’. In an English context it was famously borne by the pre-Raphaelite poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), the son of an exiled Italian scholar and patriot.
| 1,632nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 12,408
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 32,078
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- District of Columbia
- has the most people named Dante per capita
- 1998
- marked the height of its popularity
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