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Deona vs Deondre

American parents have registered 4,070 Deondres since 1880, against 1,172 Deonas. Deondre is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Deona Deondre

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 74 years in which either name was published, Deondre for 45 years and Deona for 29 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Deona Deondre
Total US births 1,1724,070
Most in one year 36223
Babies in 2025 625
Estimated living today 1,1004,000
Median age today 3525
Peak year 19951998
Best rank 3,152nd girls734th boys
Rank in 2025 13,208th4,139th
First recorded 19461966
Girls / boys 1,172 / 015 / 4,055

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 Deonas alive today are over 35; half the Deondres are over 25. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Deona Deondre
England and Wales 520

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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