Deion
Last seen for girls in 2014 at #16,513 · #1,743 for boys in 2025, 93 births
Given to boys 98.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 566 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,043since 1962
Deion over time
Rank among boys' names. Deion has never cracked the top 400 here.
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 | — | #1,743 | 93 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,608 | 106 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,650 | 104 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,695 | 101 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,514 | 117 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,600 | 101 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,678 | 95 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,553 | 108 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,499 | 112 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,443 | 120 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,396 | 123 | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #1,334 | 130 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #1,433 | 115 |
| 2012 | — | #1,285 | 136 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,344 | 126 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #1,481 | 110 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #1,443 | 116 |
| 2008 | — | #1,031 | 184 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,488 | 107 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,379 | 116 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,282 | 120 | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #1,404 | 101 |
| 2003 | — | #1,141 | 132 | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #1,107 | 132 |
| 2001 | — | #1,316 | 99 | |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #893 | 175 |
| 1999 | — | #754 | 212 | |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | #811 | 186 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #590 | 303 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 | #410 | 566 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 | #411 | 558 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #579 | 318 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #663 | 241 |
| 1992 | — | #748 | 190 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,452 | 61 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,452 | 60 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,294 | 71 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,203 | 16 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,457 | 9 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,141 | 9 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,256 | 13 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,842 | 7 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
| 1977 | — | #4,164 | 8 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,264 | 11 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,946 | 12 | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
| 1972 | — | #3,152 | 10 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | #4,230 | 6 |
| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,673 | 6 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,985 | 8 | |
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | #3,244 | 7 |
| 1964 | — | #2,854 | 9 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Deion! It came in at #3,305, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1966, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Deion
- 135 spots since 2024 (#1,608 → #1,743)
- 143 spots since 2020 (#1,600 → #1,743)
- 347 spots since 2015 (#1,396 → #1,743)
- Biggest jump: 704 spots in 1992 (#1,452 → #748)
- Biggest drop: 423 spots in 2001 (#893 → #1,316)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 1996 at #410 (566 births)
- Births halved by 1998, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 1992–2000
- Highest: 1 in 3,347 boys born in 1996 were named Deion (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,366 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 44.6% of all boys named Deion (2,695) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 48 | #2,854 (1964) | #3,444 |
| 1970s | 72 | #2,946 (1974) | #4,095 |
| 1980s | 149 | #1,294 (1989) | #4,455 |
| 1990s | 2,695 | #410 (1996) | #787 |
| 2000s | 1,282 | #893 (2000) | #1,248 |
| 2010s | 1,175 | #1,285 (2012) | #1,445 |
| 2020s | 622 | #1,514 (2021) | #1,635 |
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.
Deion in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 109,563 of them was named Deion, which outranked 63.7% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,531Yakelin17
- #5,531Zahraa17
- #5,531Zari17
- #5,771Deion16
- #5,771Adelita16
- #5,771Agustina16
- #5,771Aixa16
- #6,064Aarika15
- #6,064Adair15
- #6,064Adrieanna15
Tied with 292 names at #5,771; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 3,347 of them was named Deion, which outranked 96.1% 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).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.