Declan
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births · #139 for boys in 2025, 2,570 births
Given to boys 99.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 3,971 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 1 yrof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 58,547since 1951
Declan over time
Rank among boys' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 | #139 | 2,570 |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 | #132 | 2,765 |
| 2023 | #4,565 | 30 | #132 | 2,814 |
| 2022 | #4,582 | 30 | #114 | 3,345 |
| 2021 | #3,735 | 40 | #106 | 3,647 |
| 2020 | #4,358 | 31 | #101 | 3,601 |
| 2019 | #4,006 | 36 | #95 | 3,971 |
| 2018 | #4,562 | 30 | #101 | 3,812 |
| 2017 | #3,769 | 40 | #115 | 3,470 |
| 2016 | #4,850 | 28 | #109 | 3,623 |
| 2015 | #6,036 | 21 | #112 | 3,587 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 | #123 | 3,321 |
| 2013 | #5,834 | 22 | #121 | 3,116 |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 | #143 | 2,781 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | #176 | 2,169 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #274 | 1,257 |
| 2009 | — | #309 | 1,046 | |
| 2008 | — | #347 | 942 | |
| 2007 | — | #348 | 923 | |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #366 | 817 |
| 2005 | — | #353 | 842 | |
| 2004 | — | #431 | 606 | |
| 2003 | — | #423 | 611 | |
| 2002 | — | #441 | 562 | |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #454 | 531 |
| 2000 | — | #544 | 388 | |
| 1999 | — | #569 | 351 | |
| 1998 | — | #710 | 234 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,027 | 124 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,127 | 105 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,206 | 92 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,454 | 66 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,741 | 49 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,844 | 44 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,190 | 33 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,012 | 37 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,068 | 34 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,509 | 23 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,339 | 14 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,653 | 12 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,070 | 15 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,552 | 8 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,884 | 10 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,282 | 13 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,858 | 10 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,418 | 7 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,941 | 8 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,558 | 9 | |
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| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,891 | 11 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,062 | 9 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,107 | 8 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,231 | 7 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,282 | 7 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,673 | 10 | |
| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,337 | 7 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,505 | 6 | |
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| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Declan! It came in at #3,714, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1951–1954, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Declan
- 7 spots since 2024 (#132 → #139)
- 38 spots since 2020 (#101 → #139)
- 27 spots since 2015 (#112 → #139)
- Biggest jump: 317 spots in 1998 (#1,027 → #710)
- Biggest drop: 18 spots in 2023 (#114 → #132)
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 2019 at #95 (3,971 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 1 yr · 2019
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 1998–2025
- Highest: 1 in 452 boys born in 2019 were named Declan (0.22%)
- Latest: 1 in 665 boys born in 2025 (0.15%)
- 53.1% of all boys named Declan (31,107) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 27 | #3,505 (1955) | #3,740 |
| 1960s | 70 | #2,673 (1963) | #3,398 |
| 1970s | 53 | #2,891 (1970) | #4,195 |
| 1980s | 145 | #2,068 (1989) | #3,574 |
| 1990s | 1,135 | #569 (1999) | #1,388 |
| 2000s | 7,268 | #309 (2009) | #402 |
| 2010s | 31,107 | #95 (2019) | #137 |
| 2020s | 18,742 | #101 (2020) | #121 |
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.
Declan in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 115,728 of them was named Declan, which outranked 57.2% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,251Zurmani15
- #7,251Zuzu15
- #7,251Zyalani15
- #7,594Declan14
- #7,594Aadhini14
- #7,594Aanika14
- #7,594Aaralynn14
- #7,967Aadhyareddy13
- #7,967Aarza13
- #7,967Abriana13
Tied with 372 names at #7,594; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 623 of them was named Declan, which outranked 99.1% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.