Deonte
Deonte was given to 57 boys in 2025, #2,400 among boys’ names; 8,239 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,990 Americans named Deonte and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 22 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deonte by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Deonte mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Deonte is “a male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Deonte?
#2,400 among boys’ names, 2025
Deonte fell from #1,818 in 2015 to #2,400 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 42.8 to 33.4 per million.
449 babies in 1994, the peak
Deonte peaked in 1994, when 449 babies were given it (443 boys, #482 among boys’ names). The 57 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | #2,400 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,482 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 50 | #2,621 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,274 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 69 | #2,097 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 84 | #1,789 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 91 | #1,727 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 75 | #1,962 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 72 | #1,979 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 75 | #1,942 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 82 | #1,818 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 91 | #1,682 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 81 | #1,783 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,581 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 103 | #1,535 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 116 | #1,430 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 112 | #1,491 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 145 | #1,212 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 161 | #1,121 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 140 | #1,196 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 158 | #1,048 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 160 | #1,023 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 194 | #878 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 218 | #789 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 263 | #685 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 320 | #605 | 0.16 |
| 1999 | 330 | #589 | 0.17 |
| 1998 | 371 | #540 | 0.19 |
| 1997 | 389 | #518 | 0.21 |
| 1996 | 430 | #492 | 0.23 |
| 1995 | 444 | #487 | 0.23 |
| 1994 | 443 | #482 | 0.23 |
| 1993 | 415 | #501 | 0.21 |
| 1992 | 371 | #523 | 0.19 |
| 1991 | 349 | #544 | 0.17 |
| 1990 | 268 | #614 | 0.13 |
| 1989 | 269 | #593 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 178 | #703 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 129 | #817 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 124 | #811 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 99 | #911 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 83 | #977 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 68 | #1,083 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 66 | #1,125 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 53 | #1,262 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 42 | #1,478 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 47 | #1,357 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 27 | #1,881 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 23 | #2,081 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,733 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,940 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,179 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,636 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Deonte a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deonte has been given almost only to boys: 41 girls in 53 years of records.
Girls and boys named Deonte: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deonte, and how old are they?
7,990 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 8,239 Americans ever recorded as Deonte. The median Deonte alive today is 29 years old; half are between 22 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 5,636 people named Deonte (59 women and girls, 5,577 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,711 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 | 175 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,660 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 938 |
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 Deonte born?
The states with the most babies named Deonte are Ohio, Texas and South Carolina, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; South Carolina is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 6 | #1,141 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,663 | 0.5× |
| South Carolina | 5 | #773 | 1.4× |
Where Deonte is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Deonte is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1973 it was given 4.2 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 Deonte 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 22,327 babies since 1880, Deonte is the most given (37% of them). In 2025 it was given to 57 of their 150 babies (38%), again the 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 Deonte
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 Deonte and names like it
- Compare Deonte and DeontaeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDeonte peaked in 1994.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deonte since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Deonte: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Deonte.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Deonte alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.