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 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
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1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 15,154 of them was named Deonta, which outranked 90.5% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #990Rodrick126
- #990Tom126
- #990Waylon126
- #999Deonta125
- #999Branson125
- #999Bruno125
- #999Hans125
- #1,006Chester124
- #1,006Isidro124
- #1,006Landen124
Tied with 6 names at #999; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.