Deonta
#5,668 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Deonta has been given to 2,678 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #5,668 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 158 recorded.
Babies named Deonta, 2025
1 in 207,000
Deonta over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Deonta?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 207,000
- 16 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 107,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,668
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 143,620 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Deonta sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deonta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Deontas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Deonta was born before 1996 — so the typical Deonta is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 42.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 32.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,642
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (1,134).
Is Deonta 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
- +585
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +106
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,760
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.59×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 10.1%
- Peak was 1992 (158)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 14.8% average annual change
Spellings of Deonta
Deonta is not the most common spelling — Donte is, with 15.9% against Deonta's 2.7%.
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 Deonta is used
Across 1910–2025, Deonta was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 82,185 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 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. Deonta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Deonta by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Deonta
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Deonta
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Deonta, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Deonta
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.