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Deontay

#6,540 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Deonte

Deontay has been given to 1,171 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #6,540 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 57 recorded.

Babies named Deontay, 2025

1 in 255,000

Deontay over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Deontay: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Deonte

coinages

What Deontay means

Deontay is a variant of Deonte.

Origin, language, and formation

Deontay is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Deontay is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Deonte.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,171 boys were recorded with the name Deontay between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 57 in 1996; its best national rank was #1,672 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,076 in 2020 to #6,540 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,753 in 2015 to #6,540 in 2025.

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 Deontay?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,540
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Deontay 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 2025 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deontay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deontays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Deontay was born before 2000 — so the typical Deontay is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
38.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,171
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1990s — 38.4% of all recorded uses (450).

Is Deontay 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
+2,659
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,464
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,787
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.65×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.8%
Peak was 1996 (57)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,672
1996

Spellings of Deontay

Deontay is not the most common spelling — Deonte is, with 20.6% against Deontay's 2.9%.

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 Deontay is used

Across 1910–2025, Deontay was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 307,397 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 50,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 100,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Mississippi1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Deontay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Deontay around the world

Where Deontay ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2016–2023
    #2,814
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Deontay by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,540
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,464
Best rank ever
#1,672
1996
Peak year
1996
57 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,171
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Deontay

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

DeontreDeontaeDeondreDeontaDevontayDeondraKeontayDeonteDontayDeontrayDeondrayDeontraDeondraeDeontezDeontraeDavontayDeontayeDeovionDeontaiDeoDeontreyJavontayDiontayMontay

Sibling names for Deontay

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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