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Deontae vs Deontre

American parents have registered 3,697 Deontaes since 1880, against 810 Deontres. Deontae is still ahead, with 36 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Deontae 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

Deontae has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1976 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1995, when Deontae had 114 and Deontre had 63.

Side by side

  Deontae Deontre
Total US births 3,697810
Most in one year 17863
Babies in 2025 368
Estimated living today 3,600790
Median age today 2427
Peak year 20001995
Best rank 885th boys1,508th boys
Rank in 2025 3,240th8,910th
First recorded 19761983
Girls / boys 0 / 3,6970 / 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 Deontres alive today are over 27; half the Deontaes are over 24. 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: Deontae and Deontre.