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Deonna vs Deonte

American parents have registered 8,239 Deontes since 1880, against 3,761 Deonnas. Deonte is still ahead, with 57 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Deonna against Deonte, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Deonna Deonte

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, Deonte for 44 years and Deonna for 32 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Deonna Deonte
Total US births 3,7618,239
Most in one year 108449
Babies in 2025 957
Estimated living today 3,6008,000
Median age today 3128
Peak year 19971995
Best rank 1,504th girls487th boys
Rank in 2025 10,107th2,390th
First recorded 19461973
Girls / boys 3,756 / 541 / 8,198

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 Deontes are over 28. That is 3 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 Deonte.