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Baby name
Dante
Boy
Origin of the name
Dante is a short form of Durante, “enduring.” The poet Dante Alighieri, author of the Divine Comedy, made it illustrious.
Classic name
51,587births since 1880
1990sgeneration
No. 201rank at its peak, in 1998
Where babies named Dante are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Dante is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Dante is most common in Nevada (2.2 times), Rhode Island (2.1) and Colorado (1.9), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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