girls:
18 births since 1994
#5698 (0th percentile)
boys:
135 births since 1981
#4451 (3rd percentile)
overall:
153 births since 1981
#7586 (2nd percentile)
The name Deontra is the #7,586 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 153 recorded births since 1981. This represents the 2.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,451 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 135 births since 1981. For girls, it ranks #5,698 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 18 births since 1994.
Deontra first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1981 (1981 for boys and 1994 for girls). Birth data for Deontra is available in 17 out of the 24 years between 1981 and 2004 (17 years for boys and 3 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 Deontra has been given predominantly to boys, with 88.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2004, 100.0% of babies named Deontra were boys.
For boys, Deontra reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #749) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 6 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
For girls, Deontra reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #884) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Deontra".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Deontra. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.9% confident that Deontra is pronounced as dee-AHN-truh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dee-AHN-tray, at 8.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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