Meaning not yet researched.
Deonte: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 57 in 2025. Its best rank was #482 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #482 in 1994; #2,400 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Deonte in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,400 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #482.
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Deonte: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 57 boys in 2025. Peak: #482 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 444 (1995).
In 2025, 57 US boys were named Deonte, making it the 2,400th most common boys’ name of the year, up 82 places from #2,482 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 55 boys named Deonte in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #482, reached in 1994. The most boys given the name in a single year was 444, in 1995. For comparison, it was #1,818 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Deonte in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 6 babies. In all, 8,239 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 3,831 babies named Deonte.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 691 US boys were named Deonte; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 91. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,966 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Deonte ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #773 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dionte (3,169 babies since 1880), Deante (2,721 babies since 1880) and Diante (1,396 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Deaunte, Deionte and Deyonte 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: Deaunte (368), Deionte (284), Deyonte (137), Deunte (125), Dent (71), Dyonte (30), Dyante (15), Deyante (5).
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 Deonte in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 5 | #773 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,141 | #1,251 |
| Texas | 5 | #2,663 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 57 | #2,400 |
| 2024 | — | — | 55 | #2,482 |
| 2023 | — | — | 50 | #2,622 |
| 2022 | — | — | 63 | #2,275 |
| 2021 | — | — | 69 | #2,098 |
| 2020 | — | — | 84 | #1,789 |
| 2019 | — | — | 91 | #1,727 |
| 2018 | — | — | 75 | #1,963 |
| 2017 | — | — | 72 | #1,979 |
| 2016 | — | — | 75 | #1,942 |
| 2015 | — | — | 82 | #1,818 |
| 2014 | — | — | 91 | #1,682 |
| 2013 | — | — | 81 | #1,784 |
| 2012 | — | — | 100 | #1,581 |
| 2011 | — | — | 103 | #1,535 |
| 2010 | — | — | 116 | #1,430 |
| 2009 | — | — | 112 | #1,492 |
| 2008 | — | — | 145 | #1,212 |
| 2007 | — | — | 161 | #1,121 |
| 2006 | — | — | 140 | #1,196 |
| 2005 | — | — | 158 | #1,049 |
| 2004 | — | — | 160 | #1,024 |
| 2003 | — | — | 194 | #879 |
| 2002 | — | — | 218 | #790 |
| 2001 | — | — | 263 | #686 |
| 2000 | — | — | 320 | #605 |
| 1999 | — | — | 330 | #590 |
| 1998 | — | — | 371 | #540 |
| 1997 | — | — | 389 | #518 |
| 1996 | — | — | 430 | #492 |
| 1995 | — | — | 444 | #487 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,190 | 443 | #482 |
| 1993 | — | — | 415 | #501 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,845 | 371 | #523 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,726 | 349 | #544 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,530 | 268 | #616 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,962 | 269 | #594 |
| 1988 | — | — | 178 | #703 |
| 1987 | — | — | 129 | #818 |
| 1986 | — | — | 124 | #811 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,610 | 99 | #911 |
| 1984 | — | — | 83 | #978 |
| 1983 | — | — | 68 | #1,083 |
| 1982 | — | — | 66 | #1,125 |
| 1981 | — | — | 53 | #1,262 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,373 | 42 | #1,478 |
| 1979 | — | — | 47 | #1,357 |
| 1978 | — | — | 27 | #1,881 |
| 1977 | — | — | 23 | #2,081 |
| 1976 | — | — | 15 | #2,734 |
| 1975 | — | — | 13 | #2,942 |
| 1974 | — | — | 11 | #3,181 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,638 |
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).