Deandre

Where Deandre comes from

De- + Andre. African-American coinage with the prefix De as in DeShawn, DeAngelo, and other names popular in the 1990s + Andre.
— Wiktionary's entry for Deandre
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1958
    First appearance
    #3,944 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1995
    Peak, #250
    1,141 babies named Deandre — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1998
    Deandre Ayton born
    Bahamian basketball player
  4. 2002
    Deandre Kerr born
    Canadian soccer player
  5. 2009
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #487.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Namesakes
  • Deandre Ayton · Bahamian basketball player, born 1998
  • Deandre Kerr · Canadian soccer player, born 2002
  • Deandre Watkin · Jamaican sprinter, born 2002
  • Deandre Baker · American football player, born 1996
  • DeAndre Carter · American football player, born 1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.