Name: Dante
Gender: Male
Usage: Dante, of latin origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Dante are in general originating from Brazil, France, Italy, Jamaica, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Dante across the world, see Durante.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Dante is: Enduring, Everlasting.
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Numerology of the first name Dante: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 8. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: ambitious, successful, realistic, powerful, authoritative, courageous, leading.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Leader, Visionary
Ruling planet: Saturn
Colors: Black, Purple
Gemstones: Ruby, Amethyst
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The name Dante is ranked on the 1,361st position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 345000 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.005% of the population. The name Dante has five characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Dante for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Dante is 6 June.
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History and Origin
Dante is an Italian given name and surname. Etymologically, it is short for an old given name, Durante, and was originally made popular by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, whose real name was Durante.
Notable people with the name include:
- Commander Dante, another name for Bernardo Buscayno, who became military leader of the New People's Army in the Philippines in October 1970
- Count Dante (1939–1975), an American karate instructor
- Dante Alighieri, a 14th-century Tuscan author of The Divine Comedy
- Dante Arthurs (born 1984), an Australian child murderer
- Dante Basco (born 1975), a Filipino-American actor
- Dante Benedetti (1919–2005), an American restaurateur and baseball coach
- Dante Brown (born 1980), American football player
- Dante Caputo (born 1943), an Argentine politician
- Dante Carver (born 1977), an American actor
- Dante da Maiano, a 13th-century poet
- Dante DeCaro (born 1981), a Canadian guitarist/songwriter
- Dante Fascell (1917–1998), a 20th-century Florida politician
- Dante Ferretti (born 1943), an Italian art director
- Dante Giacosa (1905–1996), an Italian car designer
- Dante Lauretta (born 1970), an American chemist
- Dante Maggio (1909–1992), an Italian film actor
- Dante Marioni (born 1964), an American glass artist
- Dante Pastula (born 1997), an American child actor
- Dante Rivera (born 1974), an American mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
- Dante Roberson (born 1972), an American musician
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), a 19th-century English painter
- Dante Scarnecchia (born 1948), the offensive line coach and assistant head coach for the New England Patriots
- Dante Smith (born 1973), a.k.a. Mos Def, an American musician, actor and poet
- Dante Spinetta (born 1976), an Argentine singer/composer
- Dante Spinotti (born 1943), an Italian cinematographer
- Dante Raul "DR" Teodoro, a Filipino-born entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Dante Tiñga (born 1939), a Filipino politician and jurist
- Dante Tomaselli (born 1969), an Italian-American screenwriter and director
- Joe Dante (born 1946), an American director
- Michael Dante (born 1931), an American actor, stage and screen director and former professional athlete
- Peter Dante (born 1968), an American actor
Italian: name bestowed in honour of the medieval poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). The medieval given name Dante represents a contracted form of Durante ‘steadfast, enduring’ (from Latin dūrans, genitive dūrantis, present participle of dūrāre to endure).
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