Deontay
#6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 57 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,171since 1979
Deontay over time
Rank among boys' names. Deontay has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #6,446 | 13 |
| 2024 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | #5,927 | 15 |
| 2022 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #4,628 | 21 |
| 2020 | #5,041 | 18 |
| 2019 | #5,813 | 15 |
| 2018 | #4,610 | 21 |
| 2017 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #6,726 | 12 |
| 2015 | #4,711 | 20 |
| 2014 | #4,866 | 19 |
| 2013 | #5,171 | 17 |
| 2012 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #3,885 | 26 |
| 2010 | #5,047 | 18 |
| 2009 | #3,639 | 29 |
| 2008 | #4,044 | 25 |
| 2007 | #3,135 | 36 |
| 2006 | #2,979 | 37 |
| 2005 | #3,615 | 26 |
| 2004 | #3,368 | 28 |
| 2003 | #2,620 | 38 |
| 2002 | #2,882 | 32 |
| 2001 | #2,489 | 39 |
| 2000 | #2,256 | 43 |
| 1999 | #2,231 | 41 |
| 1998 | #1,931 | 50 |
| 1997 | #1,706 | 57 |
| 1996 | #1,671 | 57 |
| 1995 | #1,914 | 44 |
| 1994 | #1,716 | 52 |
| 1993 | #2,257 | 34 |
| 1992 | #1,844 | 44 |
| 1991 | #2,190 | 33 |
| 1990 | #1,968 | 38 |
| 1989 | #2,292 | 29 |
| 1988 | #3,350 | 15 |
| 1987 | #3,339 | 14 |
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| 1985 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #3,459 | 12 |
| 1983 | #2,676 | 17 |
| 1982 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #4,134 | 9 |
| 1979 | #4,403 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Deontay! It came in at #4,403, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1986, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Deontay is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#585 · 1 in 5,621
- Tennessee#635 · 1 in 6,934
- Illinois#896 · 1 in 11,378
Best ever in a state: #443 in Mississippi, 1994.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Maryland | #585 | 5 | 1 in 5,621 |
| Tennessee | #635 | 5 | 1 in 6,934 |
| Illinois | #896 | 7 | 1 in 11,378 |
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See more about Deontay
- 2,541 spots since 2024 (#8,987 → #6,446)
- 1,405 spots since 2020 (#5,041 → #6,446)
- 1,735 spots since 2015 (#4,711 → #6,446)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 1996 at #1,671 (57 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 33,073 boys born in 1997 were named Deontay (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 131,390 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,671 in 1996, was only 1 in 33,233 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 38.4% of all boys named Deontay (450) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 8 | #4,403 (1979) | #4,403 |
| 1980s | 126 | #2,292 (1989) | #3,488 |
| 1990s | 450 | #1,671 (1996) | #1,943 |
| 2000s | 333 | #2,256 (2000) | #3,103 |
| 2010s | 171 | #3,885 (2011) | #5,456 |
| 2020s | 83 | #4,628 (2021) | #6,670 |
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.
Deontay in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 33,073 of them was named Deontay, which outranked 84.2% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,693Roel58
- #1,693Tavis58
- #1,693Tyre58
- #1,706Deontay57
- #1,706Aman57
- #1,706Brando57
- #1,706Dalen57
- #1,730Amin56
- #1,730Bayley56
- #1,730Chasen56
Tied with 23 names at #1,706; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.