Meaning not yet researched.
Deontae: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #859 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #859 in 1999; #3,260 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Deontae in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,260 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #859.
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Deontae: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 boys in 2025. Peak: #859 in 1999 · most boys in one year: 178 (2000).
In 2025, 36 US boys were named Deontae, making it the 3,260th most common boys’ name of the year, down 619 places from #2,641 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 50 boys named Deontae in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #859, reached in 1999. The most boys given the name in a single year was 178, in 2000. For comparison, it was #2,024 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Deontae in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 6 babies. In all, 3,697 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,303 babies named Deontae.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 493 US boys were named Deontae; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 63. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,447 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Deonta (2,678 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Deontay, Diontae and Dionta are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Deontay (1,171), Diontae (711), Dionta (364), Deantae (282), Deontaye (157), Diontay (152), Deunta (136), Deuntae (116), Deiontae (103), Deanta (94), Deionta (57), Deontai (49), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Deontae in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 36 | #3,260 |
| 2024 | — | — | 50 | #2,641 |
| 2023 | — | — | 42 | #2,963 |
| 2022 | — | — | 47 | #2,760 |
| 2021 | — | — | 46 | #2,738 |
| 2020 | — | — | 41 | #2,894 |
| 2019 | — | — | 57 | #2,371 |
| 2018 | — | — | 62 | #2,216 |
| 2017 | — | — | 49 | #2,573 |
| 2016 | — | — | 63 | #2,175 |
| 2015 | — | — | 71 | #2,024 |
| 2014 | — | — | 54 | #2,379 |
| 2013 | — | — | 60 | #2,185 |
| 2012 | — | — | 66 | #2,076 |
| 2011 | — | — | 72 | #1,933 |
| 2010 | — | — | 95 | #1,646 |
| 2009 | — | — | 66 | #2,079 |
| 2008 | — | — | 92 | #1,667 |
| 2007 | — | — | 108 | #1,481 |
| 2006 | — | — | 109 | #1,430 |
| 2005 | — | — | 101 | #1,453 |
| 2004 | — | — | 103 | #1,386 |
| 2003 | — | — | 121 | #1,210 |
| 2002 | — | — | 113 | #1,215 |
| 2001 | — | — | 134 | #1,075 |
| 2000 | — | — | 178 | #885 |
| 1999 | — | — | 176 | #859 |
| 1998 | — | — | 142 | #972 |
| 1997 | — | — | 162 | #868 |
| 1996 | — | — | 123 | #1,011 |
| 1995 | — | — | 114 | #1,046 |
| 1994 | — | — | 111 | #1,059 |
| 1993 | — | — | 128 | #951 |
| 1992 | — | — | 113 | #1,031 |
| 1991 | — | — | 120 | #973 |
| 1990 | — | — | 114 | #988 |
| 1989 | — | — | 75 | #1,246 |
| 1988 | — | — | 59 | #1,343 |
| 1987 | — | — | 41 | #1,666 |
| 1986 | — | — | 30 | #1,971 |
| 1985 | — | — | 31 | #1,876 |
| 1984 | — | — | 16 | #2,851 |
| 1983 | — | — | 27 | #1,972 |
| 1982 | — | — | 19 | #2,533 |
| 1981 | — | — | 19 | #2,516 |
| 1980 | — | — | 13 | #3,304 |
| 1979 | — | — | 14 | #3,046 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,248 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,086 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).