Devonte

Where Devonte comes from

Devonte hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1980
    First appearance
    #3,838 among boys, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1992
    Peak, #226
    1,325 babies named Devonte — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1996
    Devonte Redmond born
    association football player
  4. 1997
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #413.
  5. 1998
    Devonte Wyatt born
    American football player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Devonte Redmond · association football player, born 1996
  • Devonte Wyatt · American football player, born 1998
  • Devonte Green · American basketball player, born 1997

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.