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Deonta vs Deontre

American parents have registered 2,678 Deontas since 1880, against 810 Deontres. Deonta is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Deonta against Deontre, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Deonta Deontre

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

Deonta has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Deonta had 14 and Deontre had 8.

Side by side

  Deonta Deontre
Total US births 2,678810
Most in one year 15863
Babies in 2025 168
Estimated living today 2,600790
Median age today 2927
Peak year 19921995
Best rank 839th boys1,508th boys
Rank in 2025 5,608th8,910th
First recorded 19741983
Girls / boys 36 / 2,6420 / 810

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 Deontas alive today are over 29; half the Deontres are over 27. That is 2 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: Deonta and Deontre.