Deontay

Where Deontay comes from

The dictionaries list Deontay as a given name — a male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Deonte — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1979
    First appearance
    #4,403 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1996
    Peak, #1,671
    57 babies named Deontay — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2004
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,368.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Deonte.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Deontay hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.