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Deon vs Deondra

American parents have registered 16,988 Deons since 1880, against 1,769 Deondras. Deon is still ahead, with 133 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Deon against Deondra, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Deon Deondra

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Deon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1913 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1985, when Deon had 269 and Deondra had 88.

Side by side

  Deon Deondra
Total US births 16,9881,769
Most in one year 47188
Babies in 2025 133under 5
Estimated living today 16,0001,700
Median age today 3235
Peak year 19941985
Best rank 472nd boys1,621st girls
Rank in 2025 1,382ndunranked
First recorded 19131957
Girls / boys 1,670 / 15,3181,354 / 415

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Deondras alive today are over 35; half the Deons are over 32. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Deon and Deondra.