Devonta

Where Devonta comes from

Devonta hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1982
    First appearance
    #5,003 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1992
    Devonta Freeman born
    American football player
  3. 1992
    Peak, #570
    320 babies named Devonta — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1994
    Devonta Pollard born
    American basketball player
  5. 1997
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #886.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Devonta Freeman · American football player, born 1992
  • Devonta Pollard · American basketball player, born 1994

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.