Deontaye
Deontaye was last recorded in 2007, when 6 babies were given it; 157 Americans have been recorded with it between 1987 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deontaye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deontaye?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,269, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 2003, the peak
Deontaye peaked in 2003, when 14 boys were given it, #5,333 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | #11,269 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,820 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,788 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,287 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,333 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,655 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,558 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,002 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,661 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,765 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 | #8,189 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,590 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,504 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,506 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,259 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,682 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,474 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,187 | 2.5 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,225 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Deontaye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deontaye has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Deontaye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deontaye, and how old are they?
An estimated 152 Americans named Deontaye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 23 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 143 people named Deontaye (2 women and girls, 141 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 154 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,443 babies since 1880, Deontaye is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 128 babies recorded by SSA was a Deontaye (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Deontaye
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 Deontaye and names like it
- Compare Deontaye and DeonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDeontaye peaked in 2003.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Deontaye.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Deontaye alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.