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Delonte

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Delonte has been given to 1,519 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1993, with 85 recorded.

Babies named Delonte, 2024

1 in 557,000

Delonte over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delonte: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delonte means

Delonte is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Delonte is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,519 boys were recorded with the name Delonte between 1972 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 85 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,224 in 1992.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Delonte?

Delonte had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Delonte sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delonte. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delontes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delonte was born before 1995 — so the typical Delonte is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
36.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,519
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 36.4% of all recorded uses (553).

Is Delonte rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1993 (85)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,224
1992

Spellings of Delonte

Delonte is not the most common spelling — Donte is, with 18.7% against Delonte's 1.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Delonte is used

Across 1910–2025, Delonte was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 1,786 boys, against 1 in 26,444 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

056 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 1,786
  2. 2Maryland1 in 11,111
  3. 3Virginia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Delonte has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Delonte by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,224
1992
Peak year
1993
85 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,519
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Delonte

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Delonte

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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