Deon vs Deonta
American parents have registered 16,988 Deons since 1880, against 2,678 Deontas. Deon is still ahead, with 133 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Deon Deonta
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 1992, when Deon had 375 and Deonta had 158.
Side by side
| Deon | Deonta | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 16,988 | 2,678 |
| Most in one year | 471 | 158 |
| Babies in 2025 | 133 | 16 |
| Estimated living today | 16,000 | 2,600 |
| Median age today | 32 | 29 |
| Peak year | 1994 | 1992 |
| Best rank | 472nd boys | 839th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,382nd | 5,608th |
| First recorded | 1913 | 1974 |
| Girls / boys | 1,670 / 15,318 | 36 / 2,642 |
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 Deons alive today are over 32; half the Deontas are over 29. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Deon the District of Columbia (4.9×), Michigan (2.3×), Maryland (2.1×)
- Deonta Georgia (5.1×), Michigan (4.6×), Illinois (4.0×)
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 Deonta.