Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Deotis

#24,847 most common boys' name of all time · #65,616 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1939–1957

Rank among boys
#24,847
Rank overall
#65,616 of 105,966
First appeared
1939
Years on the list
4 of 146
All-time
22
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1945 #3,315
Best rank
#3,315 1945
Girls Boys peak 6/yr
1940

Deotis first appears in 1939. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1957 — 5 5 #4,390
1945 — 6 6 #3,315
1942 — 5 5 #4,012
1939 — 6 6 #3,475