Deacon

#561 for boys in 2025, 529 births

Peak · boys
2014 · 734 births
Debut · boys
15 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
11,570
since 1971

Deacon over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Deacon has never cracked the top 400 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202020peak #420, 2014boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#561529
2024#552540
2023#533555
2022#517573
2021#475631
2020#516555
2019#509562
2018#485605
2017#499581
2016#469651
2015#453669
2014#420734
2013#438656
2012#667354
2011#655358
2010#693336
2009#686353
2008#644380
2007#629386
2006#690325
2005#801240
2004#899192
2003#1,173127
2002#1,064142
2001#1,118126
2000#1,58574
1999#2,06346
1998#4,87313
1997#4,24615
1996#4,18515
1995#5,50110
1994#5,10911
1993#5,00211
1992#7,4226
1991#5,09610
1990#8,1175
1989#6,9416
1988#5,2008
1987#5,4597
1986#5,3327
1985#4,05210
1984#3,70111
1983#4,4998
1982#5,6196
1981#3,03014
1980#3,83810
1979#3,56911
1978#2,79915
1977#3,60610
1976#2,60116
1975#2,75114
1974#2,94612
1973#3,6948
1972#4,4416
1971#2,46415
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First appearance
1971

The first year at least five boys were named Deacon! It came in at #2,464, and was given to 15 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1989–1990, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.

See more about Deacon
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 9 spots since 2024 (#552#561)
  • 45 spots since 2020 (#516#561)
  • 108 spots since 2015 (#453#561)
  • Biggest jump: 274 spots in 2004 (#1,173#899)
  • Biggest drop: 42 spots in 2009 (#644#686)
Rise & fade · boys
43 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1971
  • Peaked 2014 at #420 (734 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 22 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 2004–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 2,617
  • Highest: 1 in 2,617 boys born in 2014 were named Deacon (0.04%)
  • Latest: 1 in 3,229 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 47.6% of all boys named Deacon (5,506) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s107#2,464 (1971)#3,208
1980s87#3,030 (1981)#4,767
1990s142#2,063 (1999)#5,161
2000s2,345#629 (2007)#929
2010s5,506#420 (2014)#529
2020s3,383#475 (2021)#526

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.

Deacon in 2020

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#516
555 births · 1 in 3,110 boys

Top boys' names in 2020

  1. #1Liam19,865
  2. #2Noah18,464
  3. #3Oliver14,277
  4. #4Elijah13,238
  5. #5William12,676
  6. #6James12,390
  7. #7Benjamin12,264
  8. #8Lucas11,386
  9. #9Henry10,793
  10. #10Alexander10,268
  11. #516Deacon555
More about 2020

boys

1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 3,110 of them was named Deacon, which outranked 96.3% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Deacon
  1. #512Raphael559
  2. #514Kieran558
  3. #515Keanu557
  4. #516Deacon555
  5. #517Casey554
  6. #517Moshe554
  7. #519Phillip553
Biggest movers since 2019
Risers
  1. 587Zyair#1,548#961
  2. 567Jaxtyn#1,152#585
  3. 539Jakobe#1,372#833
  4. 473Kylo#922#449
  5. 461Ander#1,085#624
Fallers
  1. 380Vivaan#875#1,255
  2. 282Alexzander#890#1,172
  3. 268Reyansh#806#1,074
  4. 266Javion#949#1,215
  5. 224Kenny#862#1,086

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2020