girls:
36 births since 1979
#5680 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.6k births since 1974
#2467 (46th percentile)
overall:
2.6k births since 1974
#5218 (33rd percentile)
The name Deonta is the #5,218 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,647 recorded births since 1974. This represents the 32.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 32.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,467 (46.2% percentile) for all time with 2,611 births since 1974. For girls, it ranks #5,680 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 36 births since 1979.
Deonta first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1974 (1974 for boys and 1979 for girls). Birth data for Deonta is available in 49 out of the 50 years between 1974 and 2023 (49 years for boys and 6 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Deonta has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Deonta reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 19.8% percentile (ranked #618) with 75 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 75 births per million (ranked 19.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1996, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Deonta ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 7.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Deonta reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #820) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Deonta".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Deonta. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.9% confident that Deonta is pronounced as dee-AHN-tay, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dee-AHN-tuh, at 27.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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