Daequan
#12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 59 births
- Debut · boys
- 13 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 797since 1991
Daequan over time
Rank among boys' names. Daequan has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #8,140 | 9 |
| 2016 | #9,664 | 7 |
| 2015 | #6,324 | 13 |
| 2014 | #7,048 | 11 |
| 2013 | #5,923 | 14 |
| 2012 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2010 | #4,848 | 19 |
| 2009 | #4,035 | 25 |
| 2008 | #4,145 | 24 |
| 2007 | #3,188 | 35 |
| 2006 | #3,524 | 29 |
| 2005 | #4,198 | 21 |
| 2004 | #3,285 | 29 |
| 2003 | #2,470 | 42 |
| 2002 | #2,817 | 33 |
| 2001 | #2,086 | 50 |
| 2000 | #1,924 | 54 |
| 1999 | #1,801 | 55 |
| 1998 | #2,012 | 47 |
| 1997 | #2,164 | 40 |
| 1996 | #1,638 | 59 |
| 1995 | #1,914 | 44 |
| 1994 | #2,082 | 39 |
| 1993 | #2,943 | 23 |
| 1992 | #3,604 | 17 |
| 1991 | #4,231 | 13 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Daequan! It came in at #4,231, and was given to 13 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2020–2025, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Daequan is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#509 · 1 in 4,788
- North Carolina#555 · 1 in 5,098
- Pennsylvania#832 · 1 in 13,669
- New York#1,101 · 1 in 14,842
Best ever in a state: #509 in Maryland, 1996.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Maryland | #509 | 6 | 1 in 4,788 |
| North Carolina | #555 | 9 | 1 in 5,098 |
| Pennsylvania | #832 | 5 | 1 in 13,669 |
| New York | #1,101 | 8 | 1 in 14,842 |
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See more about Daequan
- 5,684 spots since 2015 (#6,324 → #12,008)
- Debuted 1991
- Peaked 1996 at #1,638 (59 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 32,107 boys born in 1996 were named Daequan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.9% of all boys named Daequan (342) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 337 | #1,638 (1996) | #2,488 |
| 2000s | 342 | #1,924 (2000) | #3,167 |
| 2010s | 108 | #4,848 (2010) | #7,615 |
| 2020s | 10 | #12,008 (2025) | #12,077 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Daequan in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
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1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 32,107 of them was named Daequan, which outranked 84.5% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,616Trequan60
- #1,616Tristyn60
- #1,616Vito60
- #1,638Daequan59
- #1,638Akil59
- #1,638Alfonzo59
- #1,638Darell59
- #1,655Amit58
- #1,655Aren58
- #1,655Bowen58
Tied with 16 names at #1,638; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.