girls:
36 births since 1992
#5680 (1st percentile)
boys:
3.1k births since 1982
#2240 (51st percentile)
overall:
3.1k births since 1982
#4852 (37th percentile)
The name Devonta is the #4,852 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,147 recorded births since 1982. This represents the 37.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,240 (51.1% percentile) for all time with 3,111 births since 1982. For girls, it ranks #5,680 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 36 births since 1992.
Devonta first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1982 (1982 for boys and 1992 for girls).
The name Devonta has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Devonta reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 35.8% percentile (ranked #495) with 152 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 152 births per million (ranked 35.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Devonta ranks #887 for boys (2.6% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 10.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Devonta reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #859) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Devonta".
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Our model has identified 13 different pronunciations for the name Devonta. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 21.4% confident that Devonta is pronounced as deh-VAHN-tay, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dih-VAHN-tuh, at 14.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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