Deondra vs Deonta
American parents have registered 2,678 Deontas since 1880, against 1,769 Deondras. Deonta is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Deondra 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
Of the 63 years in which either name was published, Deonta for 43 years and Deondra for 20 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.
Side by side
| Deondra | Deonta | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,769 | 2,678 |
| Most in one year | 88 | 158 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 16 |
| Estimated living today | 1,700 | 2,600 |
| Median age today | 35 | 29 |
| Peak year | 1985 | 1992 |
| Best rank | 1,621st girls | 839th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 5,608th |
| First recorded | 1957 | 1974 |
| Girls / boys | 1,354 / 415 | 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 Deondras alive today are over 35; half the Deontas are over 29. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Deondra Georgia (9.1×), Florida (8.4×), South Carolina (6.2×)
- 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: Deondra and Deonta.