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Deonna vs Deontae

American parents have registered 3,761 Deonnas since 1880, against 3,697 Deontaes. But in 2025 it was Deontae that was commoner, 36 babies to 9.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Deonna against Deontae, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Deonna Deontae

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 76 years in which either name was published, Deonna for 41 years and Deontae for 35 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Deonna Deontae
Total US births 3,7613,697
Most in one year 108178
Babies in 2025 936
Estimated living today 3,6003,600
Median age today 3124
Peak year 19972000
Best rank 1,504th girls885th boys
Rank in 2025 10,107th3,240th
First recorded 19461976
Girls / boys 3,756 / 50 / 3,697

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 Deonnas alive today are over 31; half the Deontaes are over 24. That is 7 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: Deonna and Deontae.