Deonta
Last seen for girls in 1994 at #11,778 · #5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
Given to boys 98.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1992 · 158 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,642since 1974
Deonta over time
Rank among boys' names. Deonta has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #5,608 | 16 | |
| 2024 | — | #6,199 | 14 | |
| 2023 | — | #7,738 | 10 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,850 | 20 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,780 | 20 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,699 | 15 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,806 | 20 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,793 | 28 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,781 | 28 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,681 | 29 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,882 | 27 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,371 | 32 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,582 | 29 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,954 | 39 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,000 | 38 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,874 | 41 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,847 | 42 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,828 | 42 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,721 | 44 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,513 | 48 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,114 | 58 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,531 | 43 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,128 | 52 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,916 | 58 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,677 | 69 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,514 | 79 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,374 | 86 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,347 | 88 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,284 | 89 | |
| 1996 | — | #999 | 125 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,040 | 115 | |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #1,022 | 118 |
| 1993 | — | #929 | 134 | |
| 1992 | — | #839 | 158 | |
| 1991 | — | #963 | 122 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,065 | 99 | |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #1,024 | 101 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #1,329 | 60 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | #1,367 | 54 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #1,334 | 54 |
| 1985 | — | #1,371 | 50 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,349 | 49 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,748 | 32 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,999 | 27 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,726 | 33 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,003 | 27 | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #1,943 | 27 |
| 1978 | — | #1,870 | 27 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,037 | 13 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,012 | 8 | |
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| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Deonta! It came in at #5,227, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1975, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Deonta
- 591 spots since 2024 (#6,199 → #5,608)
- 91 spots since 2020 (#5,699 → #5,608)
- 1,726 spots since 2015 (#3,882 → #5,608)
- Biggest jump: 124 spots in 1992 (#963 → #839)
- Biggest drop: 285 spots in 1997 (#999 → #1,284)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 1992 at #839 (158 births)
- Births halved by 2000, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1991–1993
- Highest: 1 in 12,642 boys born in 1992 were named Deonta (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 106,755 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.9% of all boys named Deonta (1,134) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 80 | #1,870 (1978) | #3,218 |
| 1980s | 487 | #1,024 (1989) | #1,525 |
| 1990s | 1,134 | #839 (1992) | #1,086 |
| 2000s | 535 | #1,514 (2000) | #2,279 |
| 2010s | 311 | #2,874 (2010) | #3,572 |
| 2020s | 95 | #4,780 (2021) | #5,812 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Deonta in 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
Top boys' names in 1986
More about 1986
girls
1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 343,109 of them was named Deonta, which outranked 15.0% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,924 names at #10,912; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,841,515 boys got a published name in 1986; 1 in 34,102 of them was named Deonta, which outranked 83.0% of the 7,830 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,320Jordy55
- #1,320Maximillian55
- #1,320Mustafa55
- #1,334Deonta54
- #1,334Alessandro54
- #1,334Amber54
- #1,334Antone54
- #1,345Chirstopher53
- #1,345Darion53
- #1,345Derrik53
Tied with 10 names at #1,334; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.