Deegan

Last seen for girls in 2016 at #12,876 · #2,020 for boys in 2025, 74 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time

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Peak · boys
2011 · 259 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
3,453
since 1997

Deegan over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Deegan has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202002peak #833, 2011boys
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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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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#2,02074
2024#1,673100
2023#1,71198
2022#1,79291
2021#1,529115
2020#1,609100
2019#1,401126
2018#1,458119
2017#1,213151
2016#12,8767#1,169163
2015#16,4195#1,111173
2014#1,153164
2013#966207
2012#925222
2011#833259
2010#893230
2009#985201
2008#984201
2007#1,059177
2006#1,391114
2005#1,362110
2004#1,67177
2003#2,20649
2002#2,06852
2001#2,68135
2000#4,57316
1999#5,03513
1998#5,84010
1997#8,1106
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First appearance
1997

The first year at least five boys were named Deegan! It came in at #8,110, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1997, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.

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Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 347 spots since 2024 (#1,673#2,020)
  • 411 spots since 2020 (#1,609#2,020)
  • 909 spots since 2015 (#1,111#2,020)
  • Biggest jump: 92 spots in 2010 (#985#893)
  • Biggest drop: 187 spots in 2014 (#966#1,153)
Rise & fade · boys
14 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1997
  • Peaked 2011 at #833 (259 births)
  • Births halved by 2018, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 6 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2008–2013
Share of babies · boys
1 in 7,333
  • Highest: 1 in 7,333 boys born in 2011 were named Deegan (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 23,082 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 52.5% of all boys named Deegan (1,814) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s29#5,035 (1999)#6,328
2000s1,032#984 (2008)#1,898
2010s1,814#833 (2011)#1,112
2020s578#1,529 (2021)#1,722

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.

Deegan in 2002

boys
#2,068
52 births · 1 in 37,337 boys

Top boys' names in 2002

  1. #1Jacob30,586
  2. #2Michael28,258
  3. #3Joshua25,998
  4. #4Matthew25,154
  5. #5Ethan22,113
  6. #6Andrew22,037
  7. #7Joseph21,920
  8. #8Christopher21,689
  9. #9Nicholas21,390
  10. #10Daniel21,352
  11. #2,068Deegan52
More about 2002

boys

1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 37,337 of them was named Deegan, which outranked 83.4% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Deegan
  1. #2,046Viktor53
  2. #2,046Vishal53
  3. #2,046Zacary53
  4. #2,068Deegan52
  5. #2,068Armond52
  6. #2,068Carver52
  7. #2,068Denim52
  8. #2,092Anwar51
  9. #2,092Bodhi51
  10. #2,092Boyd51

Tied with 23 names at #2,068; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2001
Risers
  1. 10,021Omarion#10,556#535
  2. 3,583Amarion#4,302#719
  3. 3,370Yahir#3,974#604
  4. 1,466Gael#2,185#719
  5. 1,287Lisandro#2,185#898
Fallers
  1. 546Daunte#968#1,514
  2. 405Imanol#921#1,326
  3. 376Shemar#594#970
  4. 347Jade#958#1,305
  5. 311Jalon#873#1,184

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

See the top 100 for 2002