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Deyon vs Deyonta

American parents have registered 549 Deyons since 1880, against 42 Deyontas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Deyon against Deyonta, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Deyon Deyonta

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 46 years in which either name was published, Deyon for 45 years and Deyonta for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Deyon Deyonta
Total US births 54942
Most in one year 2537
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 53040
Median age today 2232
Peak year 19961993
Best rank 2,911th boys2,123rd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19691993
Girls / boys 11 / 5380 / 42

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 Deyontas alive today are over 32; half the Deyons are over 22. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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