Deontae
#3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births
- Peak · boys
- 1999 · 176 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,697since 1976
Deontae over time
Rank among boys' names. Deontae has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,240 | 36 |
| 2024 | #2,637 | 50 |
| 2023 | #2,952 | 42 |
| 2022 | #2,753 | 47 |
| 2021 | #2,732 | 46 |
| 2020 | #2,886 | 41 |
| 2019 | #2,364 | 57 |
| 2018 | #2,210 | 62 |
| 2017 | #2,566 | 49 |
| 2016 | #2,167 | 63 |
| 2015 | #2,019 | 71 |
| 2014 | #2,370 | 54 |
| 2013 | #2,182 | 60 |
| 2012 | #2,066 | 66 |
| 2011 | #1,927 | 72 |
| 2010 | #1,639 | 95 |
| 2009 | #2,077 | 66 |
| 2008 | #1,665 | 92 |
| 2007 | #1,477 | 108 |
| 2006 | #1,427 | 109 |
| 2005 | #1,453 | 101 |
| 2004 | #1,384 | 103 |
| 2003 | #1,210 | 121 |
| 2002 | #1,215 | 113 |
| 2001 | #1,073 | 134 |
| 2000 | #885 | 178 |
| 1999 | #859 | 176 |
| 1998 | #970 | 142 |
| 1997 | #866 | 162 |
| 1996 | #1,011 | 123 |
| 1995 | #1,043 | 114 |
| 1994 | #1,059 | 111 |
| 1993 | #951 | 128 |
| 1992 | #1,029 | 113 |
| 1991 | #972 | 120 |
| 1990 | #988 | 114 |
| 1989 | #1,243 | 75 |
| 1988 | #1,341 | 59 |
| 1987 | #1,655 | 41 |
| 1986 | #1,962 | 30 |
| 1985 | #1,866 | 31 |
| 1984 | #2,824 | 16 |
| 1983 | #1,955 | 27 |
| 1982 | #2,518 | 19 |
| 1981 | #2,496 | 19 |
| 1980 | #3,256 | 13 |
| 1979 | #3,018 | 14 |
| 1978 | #4,157 | 8 |
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| 1976 | #4,935 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Deontae! It came in at #4,935, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1977, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Deontae is popular in 1991
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#362 · 1 in 3,435
- Georgia#466 · 1 in 4,054
- Illinois#513 · 1 in 5,147
- Ohio#581 · 1 in 8,848
- Florida#868 · 1 in 12,719
Best ever in a state: #305 in South Carolina, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #362 | 20 | 1 in 3,435 |
| Georgia | #466 | 12 | 1 in 4,054 |
| Illinois | #513 | 17 | 1 in 5,147 |
| Ohio | #581 | 9 | 1 in 8,848 |
| Florida | #868 | 7 | 1 in 12,719 |
| California | #1,452 | 9 | 1 in 31,983 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Deontae
- 603 spots since 2024 (#2,637 → #3,240)
- 354 spots since 2020 (#2,886 → #3,240)
- 1,221 spots since 2015 (#2,019 → #3,240)
- Biggest jump: 255 spots in 1990 (#1,243 → #988)
- Biggest drop: 188 spots in 2001 (#885 → #1,073)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 1999 at #859 (176 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1997–2000
- Highest: 1 in 10,910 boys born in 1999 were named Deontae (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 47,447 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 35.2% of all boys named Deontae (1,303) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 28 | #3,018 (1979) | #4,037 |
| 1980s | 330 | #1,243 (1989) | #2,112 |
| 1990s | 1,303 | #859 (1999) | #975 |
| 2000s | 1,125 | #885 (2000) | #1,387 |
| 2010s | 649 | #1,639 (2010) | #2,151 |
| 2020s | 262 | #2,637 (2024) | #2,867 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Deontae in 1991
Top boys' names in 1991
More about 1991
boys
2,020,328 boys got a published name in 1991; 1 in 16,836 of them was named Deontae, which outranked 89.9% of the 9,648 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #967Kendal121
- #967Kolton121
- #967Samir121
- #972Deontae120
- #972Cheyenne120
- #972Deshaun120
- #972Eliseo120
- #981Bilal119
- #981Cedrick119
- #981Channing119
Tied with 8 names at #972; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.