Deontae

Where Deontae comes from

The dictionaries list Deontae as a given name — a male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Deonte — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1976
    First appearance
    #4,935 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1999
    Peak, #859
    176 babies named Deontae — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2009
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,077.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Deonte.
Namesakes

No widely known Deontae turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.