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Deonte

#2,400 in 2025Boys' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Deonte has been given to 8,239 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #2,400 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 444 recorded.

Babies named Deonte, 2025

1 in 58,200

Deonte over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Deonte: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

coinages

What Deonte means

Deonte is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Deonte is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Deonte is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,198 boys were recorded with the name Deonte between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 444 in 1995; its best national rank was #482 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,789 in 2020 to #2,400 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,818 in 2015 to #2,400 in 2025.

In the United States, 41 girls were recorded with the name Deonte between 1980 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1980; its best national rank was #8,372 in 1980.

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 Deonte?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 58,200
57 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 30,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,400
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
40,315 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Deonte 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 40,315 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deonte. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deontes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Deonte was born before 1997 — so the typical Deonte is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
46.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,198
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 46.5% of all recorded uses (3,810).

Is Deonte 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
+82
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−611
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−582
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.8%
Peak was 1995 (444)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#482
1994

Spellings of Deonte

Deonte is not the most common spelling — Dante is, with 25.5% against Deonte's 4.1%.

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 Deonte is used

Across 2016–2025, Deonte was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 26,067 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 9,091
  2. 2Ohio1 in 10,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 12,500
  4. 4Michigan1 in 12,500
  5. 5Georgia1 in 16,667
  6. 6Florida1 in 25,000
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 25,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 33,333

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.

Deonte around the world

Where Deonte 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
    2007–2021
    #3,990
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1997–1997
    #1,945
    in 1997

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

Notable people named Deonte

People whose public names include Deonte, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Deonte by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,400
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 611
Best rank ever
#482
1994
Peak year
1995
444 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,198
Count in 2025
57

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,372
1980
Peak year
1980
7 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
41
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Deonte

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

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Names with a curve like Deonte

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Deonte, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Deonte

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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