Deondre
Masculine · “manly”
Deondre is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 4,055 boys against 15 girls since 1880.
Deondre joins the De- prefix of American naming to Ondre, which is Andre — a Greek name built on the word for a man.
How old is the name Deondre?
Deondre first appears in US birth records in 1966 — 59 years ago. The typical Deondre alive today was born around 1999, making them about 26 years old. About 4,000 people named Deondre are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Deondre most popular?
Deondre peaked in 1998, reaching #734 nationally. Today it ranks #4139, 3,405 places below that high. See the whole 1998 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Deondre
Ours, offered as ours. Andrew is a Greek name borne by a Galilean fisherman, which is itself worth a pause — the apostles include men with Greek names in an Aramaic-speaking community, which tells you something about how mixed that world was. American naming took the French André, softened it to Ondre, and put De- in front. Four languages and two thousand years, and the word for a man is still at the bottom of it.
Meaningscholars disagree
manly, of a man
Andre descends from Greek andreios, manly, on aner, a man; Andrew was the first apostle called. The De- prefix belongs to twentieth-century American naming and carries no meaning of its own.
Pronouncing Deondre
dee-ON-dray
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Deondre
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1966
- Most boys named
- 1998223 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #734reached in 1998
- Change vs 2024
- −21.9%25 in 2025, from 32
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Deondre in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- André in French — related form
- Andrew in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Michigan, California.
Deondres among us
people named Deondre are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 68,323 born in 2025 was named Deondre
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Andreas test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Deondre's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Andreas climbed just as high around 1966, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Andreas's path sketches the road Deondre is walking now.
Deondre sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Deondre is headed
Deondre should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Deondre beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Deondre in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Dre and Ondre are both complete short forms in current use.
- Read correctly on sight by most English speakers.
- A genuinely old Greek word stands at the bottom of it.
- Deondre, DeAndre and Diondre are all in use and capitalization varies.
- It is strongly associated with one American decade.
- Eight letters and three syllables is a fair amount for early handwriting.
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Frequently asked
- How many Deondres are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,000 people named Deondre are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Deondre in 2025?
- Deondre ranks #4139 among US boy names in 2025, with 25 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Deondre?
- About 1 in every 68,323 US boys born in 2025 was named Deondre — 25 in all.
- Will my child share the name Deondre with classmates?
- Deondre will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Deondre
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