Donte or Dante

[littlemissof1]

Any ideas? we like modern names can't decide on these. dp is all for using Donte.

Either way, it will, somewhere down the line, be shortened to Don or Dan. Which do you prefer?

Can't decide on these? They are the same name! Oh No! Have just looked and apparently, Donte is a wrong spelling of variant of Dante.

Danteisn't modern.
It'spretentious though.

Is Donte a name?

I dont like Dante as a contmpory name. Sorry.

donte do it

Neither, always ends up being pn Dontaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ay.

On balance, Dante as long as it's pn crisply and you're Italian.

Just Dont

Donte isn't a name. Dante is OK.

please dont

My brother has a Dante. I really like it - wouldn't say it's modern, just not common until recently in the UK. We're from an Italian background and brother lives in Italy though, and Heated is right. You have to get it nice and crispy and Italianate. Otherwise it turns a bit Bianca Eastenders. How likely is it that it'll be pn properly where you live?

Only time I've heard Donte used was on an episode of Sally Jessy Raphael, and he was sleeping with his brother DeShawn's wife.
Not that your Donte would be sleeping with his sister-in-law and have a brother named DeShawn, but it's definitely got the made-up element to it. Sorry.

Dante. But only if you are vaguely Italian, preferably from Florence.

Think of nominative determinism before you name your child.
"Dante's infernal" people will snurk.
Pray he turns out angelic.

I like the name Dante

Donte - did you see Waterloo Road ?

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Donte looks like you didn't know how to spell Dante. I don't like Dante though either, it doesn't sound modern. I would have said it was a made up name other than reading here it is used by Italians.

Donte?????? That's not a name, it's a bleedin' spelling mistake. Makes you sound really dumb.
It's Don't but less correct.
Please don't. or Donte.

Donte is a name, and it's getting very popular and trendy too.. though Dante is still more popular. Charts here: www.babynamespedia.com/meaning/Donte

english variant is a pmsl polite way of saying they didnt know how to spell it

Both are shite. Sorry.

Donte may be a name but shouldn't be. Dante is just asking for playground pisstaking.

I bet Donte was invented by the Waterloo Road scriptwriters or else they picked it because they'd heard it used..obv a misspelling of Dante

Not sure on either of these sorry.

Eh?

Use Dante if you must (modern it aint) but why use a spelling mistake?