Deane

Where Deane comes from

* As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Mac an Deagánaigh (“son of the Deacon”), see Deacon. * As an English surname, variant of Dean.
— Wiktionary's entry for Deane
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1900
    Deane C. Davis born
    American politician
  2. 1909
    Deane Montgomery born
    American mathematician
  3. 1912
    First appearance
    #1,619 among boys, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1934
    Peak, #808
    59 babies named Deane — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1954
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,435.
  6. 1996
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Deane Montgomery · American mathematician, 1909–1992
  • Deane C. Davis · American politician, 1900–1990
  • Deane Keller · American artist and academic, 1901–1992
  • Deane B. Judd · American physicist, 1900–1972
  • Deane Williams · British basketball player, born 1996

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.