Deontae
Deontae was given to 36 boys in 2025, #3,259 among boys’ names; 3,697 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,610 Americans named Deontae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 16 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deontae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Deontae mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Deontae is “a male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Deonte.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Deontae?
#3,259 among boys’ names, 2025
Deontae fell from #2,024 in 2015 to #3,259 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 37.0 to 21.1 per million.
178 babies in 2000, the peak
Deontae peaked in 2000, when 178 boys were given it, #883 among boys’ names. The 36 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,259 | 21.1 |
| 2024 | 50 | #2,641 | 29.0 |
| 2023 | 42 | #2,962 | 24.6 |
| 2022 | 47 | #2,758 | 26.9 |
| 2021 | 46 | #2,737 | 26.3 |
| 2020 | 41 | #2,893 | 23.8 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,370 | 31.8 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,215 | 34.1 |
| 2017 | 49 | #2,572 | 26.5 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,175 | 33.2 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 71 | #2,024 | 37.0 |
| 2014 | 54 | #2,377 | 28.1 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,184 | 31.7 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,075 | 34.8 |
| 2011 | 72 | #1,932 | 37.9 |
| 2010 | 95 | #1,646 | 49.5 |
| 2009 | 66 | #2,078 | 33.3 |
| 2008 | 92 | #1,667 | 45.1 |
| 2007 | 108 | #1,481 | 52.0 |
| 2006 | 109 | #1,430 | 53.0 |
| 2005 | 101 | #1,452 | 50.6 |
| 2004 | 103 | #1,384 | 51.9 |
| 2003 | 121 | #1,209 | 61.3 |
| 2002 | 113 | #1,212 | 58.2 |
| 2001 | 134 | #1,073 | 69.0 |
| 2000 | 178 | #883 | 90.6 |
| 1999 | 176 | #857 | 91.7 |
| 1998 | 142 | #970 | 74.3 |
| 1997 | 162 | #866 | 85.9 |
| 1996 | 123 | #1,009 | 64.9 |
| 1995 | 114 | #1,043 | 59.9 |
| 1994 | 111 | #1,055 | 57.5 |
| 1993 | 128 | #949 | 65.3 |
| 1992 | 113 | #1,028 | 56.6 |
| 1991 | 120 | #968 | 59.4 |
| 1990 | 114 | #984 | 55.5 |
| 1989 | 75 | #1,241 | 37.5 |
| 1988 | 59 | #1,339 | 30.8 |
| 1987 | 41 | #1,664 | 22.0 |
| 1986 | 30 | #1,969 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 31 | #1,875 | 16.8 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,850 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 27 | #1,971 | 15.1 |
| 1982 | 19 | #2,532 | 10.5 |
| 1981 | 19 | #2,515 | 10.6 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,303 | 7.3 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,045 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,246 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,084 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Deontae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deontae has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Deontae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deontae, and how old are they?
3,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,697 Americans ever recorded as Deontae. The median Deontae alive today is 25 years old; half are between 16 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 2,405 people named Deontae (18 women and girls, 2,387 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,383 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% 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 | 38 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,090 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 673 |
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 Deontae born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 6 | #1,249 | 2.2× |
Where Deontae is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Deontae is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1976 it was given 2.9 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 Deontae 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, Deontae is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 136 babies (26%), again the second most given.
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 Deontae
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 Deontae and names like it
- Compare Deontae and DeonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDeontae peaked in 2000.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deontae since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Deontae: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Deontae.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Deontae alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.