Deon
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · #1,382 for boys in 2025, 133 births
Given to boys 90.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1994 · 456 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 15,318since 1922
Deon over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,382 | 133 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,314 | 148 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #1,328 | 143 |
| 2022 | — | #1,228 | 160 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,140 | 177 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,233 | 152 | |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #1,182 | 163 |
| 2018 | — | #1,101 | 178 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,164 | 161 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,065 | 185 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,019 | 199 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,024 | 198 | |
| 2013 | — | #936 | 215 | |
| 2012 | — | #989 | 201 | |
| 2011 | — | #981 | 200 | |
| 2010 | — | #878 | 238 | |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #830 | 262 |
| 2008 | — | #827 | 265 | |
| 2007 | — | #785 | 276 | |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #847 | 237 |
| 2005 | — | #830 | 225 | |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #816 | 220 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | #722 | 254 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #691 | 263 |
| 2001 | — | #743 | 234 | |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #607 | 317 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 | #614 | 296 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | #613 | 298 |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | #577 | 321 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | #512 | 397 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #483 | 448 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 | #472 | 456 |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 | #500 | 415 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 | #529 | 366 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 | #549 | 342 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 | #549 | 334 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 | #553 | 303 |
| 1988 | #4,840 | 17 | #605 | 241 |
| 1987 | #5,074 | 15 | #615 | 217 |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 | #625 | 204 |
| 1985 | #3,852 | 21 | #559 | 248 |
| 1984 | #3,990 | 19 | #576 | 217 |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 | #619 | 189 |
| 1982 | #4,167 | 18 | #599 | 206 |
| 1981 | #3,859 | 20 | #592 | 209 |
| 1980 | #3,318 | 25 | #509 | 277 |
| 1979 | #3,333 | 24 | #569 | 226 |
| 1978 | #2,516 | 34 | #518 | 252 |
| 1977 | #2,838 | 28 | #543 | 234 |
| 1976 | #2,387 | 34 | #537 | 226 |
| 1975 | #1,986 | 44 | #518 | 240 |
| 1974 | #2,433 | 31 | #540 | 220 |
| 1973 | #1,913 | 43 | #519 | 229 |
| 1972 | #1,890 | 44 | #502 | 245 |
| 1971 | #1,772 | 50 | #516 | 250 |
| 1970 | #1,877 | 46 | #487 | 279 |
| 1969 | #1,871 | 44 | #545 | 207 |
| 1968 | #2,246 | 29 | #510 | 218 |
| 1967 | #1,947 | 36 | #605 | 153 |
| 1966 | #1,882 | 37 | #619 | 143 |
| 1965 | #2,064 | 32 | #866 | 72 |
| 1964 | #2,530 | 24 | #929 | 67 |
| 1963 | #2,543 | 23 | #875 | 73 |
| 1962 | #2,463 | 24 | #830 | 84 |
| 1961 | #3,189 | 16 | #1,013 | 59 |
| 1960 | #2,573 | 22 | #1,045 | 54 |
| 1959 | #2,289 | 25 | #1,501 | 28 |
| 1958 | #1,908 | 33 | #1,420 | 30 |
| 1957 | #1,989 | 30 | #1,791 | 20 |
| 1956 | #1,871 | 33 | #2,798 | 9 |
| 1955 | #2,024 | 28 | #2,219 | 13 |
| 1954 | #1,648 | 38 | #2,449 | 11 |
| 1953 | #1,872 | 29 | #2,709 | 9 |
| 1952 | #3,552 | 10 | #2,514 | 10 |
| 1951 | #1,805 | 29 | #2,495 | 10 |
| 1950 | #3,962 | 8 | #2,770 | 8 |
| 1949 | #3,176 | 11 | #1,941 | 15 |
| 1948 | #2,589 | 15 | #2,326 | 11 |
| 1947 | #3,706 | 9 | #2,671 | 9 |
| 1946 | #3,034 | 11 | #1,692 | 18 |
| 1945 | #1,874 | 20 | #3,338 | 5 |
| 1944 | #3,139 | 9 | #2,195 | 11 |
| 1943 | #3,493 | 8 | #2,277 | 11 |
| 1942 | #4,124 | 6 | #3,560 | 5 |
| 1941 | #2,190 | 15 | #2,207 | 11 |
| 1940 | #2,297 | 13 | #2,322 | 10 |
| 1939 | #2,417 | 12 | #1,879 | 14 |
| 1938 | #2,579 | 11 | #1,521 | 20 |
| 1937 | #1,999 | 16 | #2,197 | 11 |
| 1936 | #2,521 | 11 | #2,184 | 11 |
| 1935 | #2,006 | 16 | #2,951 | 7 |
| 1934 | #1,556 | 23 | #2,022 | 13 |
| 1933 | #1,470 | 25 | #2,542 | 9 |
| 1932 | #1,817 | 19 | #2,849 | 8 |
| 1931 | #2,750 | 10 | #3,763 | 5 |
| 1930 | #2,306 | 14 | #3,592 | 6 |
| 1929 | #4,053 | 6 | #2,980 | 8 |
| 1928 | #4,195 | 6 | #4,151 | 5 |
| 1927 | #3,561 | 8 | #4,210 | 5 |
| 1926 | #3,046 | 10 | #3,708 | 6 |
| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 | #3,741 | 6 |
| 1924 | #3,665 | 8 | #3,867 | 6 |
| 1923 | — | — | ||
| 1922 | #4,011 | 7 | #4,307 | 5 |
| 1921 | #2,762 | 12 | — | |
| 1920 | #4,398 | 6 | — | |
| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 | — | |
| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 | — | |
| 1917 | #3,713 | 7 | — | |
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| 1915 | #2,384 | 12 | — | |
| 1914 | #3,618 | 5 | — | |
| 1913 | #3,187 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Deon! It came in at #4,307, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1922–1923, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Deon
- 68 spots since 2024 (#1,314 → #1,382)
- 149 spots since 2020 (#1,233 → #1,382)
- 363 spots since 2015 (#1,019 → #1,382)
- Biggest jump: 247 spots in 1966 (#866 → #619)
- Biggest drop: 136 spots in 2001 (#607 → #743)
- Debuted 1922
- Peaked 1994 at #472 (456 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 52 yrs · run 1962–2013
- Highest: 1 in 4,237 boys born in 1994 were named Deon (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,843 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 24.0% of all boys named Deon (3,673) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1958, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 41 | #2,980 (1929) | #3,852 |
| 1930s | 104 | #1,521 (1938) | #2,550 |
| 1940s | 106 | #1,692 (1946) | #2,453 |
| 1950s | 148 | #1,420 (1958) | #2,267 |
| 1960s | 1,130 | #510 (1968) | #784 |
| 1970s | 2,401 | #487 (1970) | #525 |
| 1980s | 2,311 | #509 (1980) | #585 |
| 1990s | 3,673 | #472 (1994) | #540 |
| 2000s | 2,553 | #607 (2000) | #770 |
| 2010s | 1,938 | #878 (2010) | #1,034 |
| 2020s | 913 | #1,140 (2021) | #1,271 |
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.
Deon in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 108,794 of them was named Deon, which outranked 63.7% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,626Zoila17
- #5,626Zuleika17
- #5,626Zykeria17
- #5,868Deon16
- #5,868Aalayah16
- #5,868Acadia16
- #5,868Adaline16
- #6,163Abigayl15
- #6,163Adam15
- #6,163Adriannah15
Tied with 294 names at #5,868; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 5,873 of them was named Deon, which outranked 94.7% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).