In 2025, 16 US boys were named Deonta, making it the 5,670th most common boys’ name of the year, up 588 places from #6,258 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 14 boys named Deonta in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #839, reached in 1992. That year also had the most boys given the name: 158. For comparison, it was #3,910 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Deonta in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 5 babies. In all, 2,678 US babies have been given the name, 1.3% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,140 babies named Deonta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 200 US boys were named Deonta; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 106,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Deontae (3,697 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Deaunta are summarised on this page.