Deontay
Deontay is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 199657 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1979
- 1,158people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,158 boys have been named Deontay in the United States since 1979, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1996, with 57 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1999, and the 1990s alone account for 39%.
By decade
In 1996, its biggest year
Deontay was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1996 were Michael, Matthew, Jacob, Christopher and Joshua. See all of 1996.
Names that rose and fell with Deontay
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Demontepeak 1994
- Deontaepeak 2000
- Diondrepeak 1996
- Lavontepeak 1995
- Dejonpeak 1992
- Marquezpeak 1998
- Marquelpeak 1995
- Travonpeak 1995
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.