Deonta
Deonta was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,668 among boys’ names; 2,678 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,590 Americans named Deonta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 22 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deonta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deonta?
#5,668 among boys’ names, 2025
Deonta fell from #3,908 in 2015 to #5,668 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.1 to 9.4 per million.
158 babies in 1992, the peak
Deonta peaked in 1992, when 158 boys were given it, #837 among boys’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,668 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,253 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,853 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,889 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,811 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,774 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,836 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,809 | 15.4 |
| 2017 | 28 | #3,795 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,707 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #3,908 | 14.1 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,390 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 29 | #3,599 | 15.3 |
| 2012 | 39 | #2,967 | 20.6 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,010 | 20.0 |
| 2010 | 41 | #2,883 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 42 | #2,859 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 42 | #2,840 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 44 | #2,730 | 21.2 |
| 2006 | 48 | #2,518 | 23.4 |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,113 | 29.0 |
| 2004 | 43 | #2,535 | 21.7 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,128 | 26.3 |
| 2002 | 58 | #1,920 | 29.9 |
| 2001 | 69 | #1,678 | 35.5 |
| 2000 | 79 | #1,515 | 40.2 |
| 1999 | 86 | #1,373 | 44.8 |
| 1998 | 88 | #1,349 | 46.0 |
| 1997 | 89 | #1,284 | 47.2 |
| 1996 | 125 | #999 | 66.0 |
| 1995 | 115 | #1,037 | 60.4 |
| 1994 | 118 | #1,019 | 61.1 |
| 1993 | 134 | #928 | 68.3 |
| 1992 | 158 | #837 | 79.1 |
| 1991 | 122 | #959 | 60.4 |
| 1990 | 99 | #1,064 | 48.2 |
| 1989 | 101 | #1,023 | 50.5 |
| 1988 | 60 | #1,326 | 31.3 |
| 1987 | 54 | #1,370 | 28.9 |
| 1986 | 54 | #1,336 | 29.3 |
| 1985 | 50 | #1,375 | 27.1 |
| 1984 | 49 | #1,353 | 27.1 |
| 1983 | 32 | #1,759 | 17.9 |
| 1982 | 27 | #2,014 | 14.9 |
| 1981 | 33 | #1,735 | 18.4 |
| 1980 | 27 | #2,015 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 27 | #1,956 | 15.7 |
| 1978 | 27 | #1,880 | 16.4 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,075 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,094 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,413 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Deonta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,678 Americans recorded as Deonta, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 16 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Deonta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deonta, and how old are they?
2,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,678 Americans ever recorded as Deonta. The median Deonta alive today is 30 years old; half are between 22 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,762 people named Deonta (42 women and girls, 1,720 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,525 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 103 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 899 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 286 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Deonta born?
The states with the most babies named Deonta are Illinois, Michigan and Georgia, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 250 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Michigan | 218 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Georgia | 178 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Virginia | 79 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 60 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 56 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Louisiana | 52 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 52 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Mississippi | 47 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Alabama | 46 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Deonta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Deonta is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1974 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Deonta with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 19,229 babies since 1880, Deonta is the fourth most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 136 babies (12%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Deonta
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Deonta and names like it
- Compare Deonta and DeonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDeonta peaked in 1992.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deonta since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Deonta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Deonta alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.