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Deondre vs Deotis

American parents have registered 4,070 Deondres since 1880, against 22 Deotises. Deondre is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Deondre against Deotis, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Deondre Deotis

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 62 years in which either name was published, Deondre for 58 years and Deotis for 4 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Deondre Deotis
Total US births 4,07022
Most in one year 2236
Babies in 2025 25under 5
Estimated living today 4,00010
Median age today 2580
Peak year 19981939
Best rank 734th boys3,113th boys
Rank in 2025 4,139thunranked
First recorded 19661939
Girls / boys 15 / 4,0550 / 22

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 Deotises alive today are over 80; half the Deondres are over 25. That is 55 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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