Deer Emoji Kitchen
Deer has been in Emoji Kitchen since day one and updated 29 times since, yet its biggest release is still the original: 145 pairings on 1 October 2020. Five and a half years of top-ups have brought it to 414, a little under the median of 472. It is the archetype of a launch emoji that never got a second look.
Every Deer mashup, and the day Google shipped it
Google added Deer to Emoji Kitchen on 1 October 2020, starting with 145 combinations. It now mixes with 414 emojis, built up over 29 separate releases. The most recent, on 2 February 2026, added 17.
| Release | Combinations added | Share of total |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | 4.1% | |
| 7 | 1.7% | |
| 58 | 14.0% | |
| 1 | 0.2% | |
| 4 | 1.0% | |
| 15 | 3.6% | |
| 3 | 0.7% | |
| 42 | 10.1% | |
| 3 | 0.7% | |
| 24 | 5.8% | |
| 16 | 3.9% | |
| 14 | 3.4% | |
| 17 earlier drops | 210 | 50.7% |
Newest Deer pairings
These partners arrived in the 2 February 2026 release, so they are the ones least likely to have been seen before.
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See every Emoji Kitchen release, with what each one added
Dates read from the Emoji Kitchen sticker assets Google serves through Gboard, which stamp each combination with the release that introduced it.
Peaking on day one
Twenty-nine releases and not one of them beat the debut. Deer gains roughly nine pairings per release, which is the rate of an emoji carried along by general updates rather than targeted at. Compare it with shark, which started two and a half years later and now has 601, or cloud, which was far behind deer until a single 2026 release overtook it. The data is quite blunt about this: being there first earns nothing.
Antlers are the constraint
Every deer sticker has to decide what happens to the antlers. They are what makes the emoji readable when it is small, so they cannot be hidden, and they take up the space above the head where a partner would naturally land. That is a genuine design constraint and the count reflects it. The emoji that finished their grids are generally ones a partner can be laid straight over.
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Deer Emoji Kitchen FAQ
How many deer emoji combinations are there?
414 out of 619 possible partners, which is just below the median of 472. The largest release remains the October 2020 debut of 145, despite 28 further updates since.
Is deer still getting new mashups?
Slowly. February 2026 added 17. Deer averages around nine new pairings per release, so growth is steady but small compared with emoji that have been given a dedicated build-out.
Does the deer emoji work for Christmas themes?
It is the emoji people reach for as a reindeer, though Unicode defines it simply as a deer. Seasonal pairings exist, but with 205 partners missing it is worth checking the grid rather than assuming a specific one is available.
Further reading
- Every Emoji Kitchen update since 2020All 43 dated drops and 147,000 pairings, counted from Googleโs own data files.
- How to use Emoji Mixer and KitchenWhich pairs actually produce a mashup, and which do nothing.
- Free online emoji gamesWhat to play, and which ones are actually hard.
- Free online emoji keyboardType emoji on any device without installing anything.