Dequan
Last seen for girls in 1993 at #13,442 · #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1994 · 377 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,850since 1975
Dequan over time
Rank among boys' names. Dequan has never cracked the top 500 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 | — | #7,194 | 11 | |
| 2024 | — | #5,904 | 15 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,456 | 23 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,774 | 29 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,494 | 22 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,274 | 34 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,943 | 41 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,106 | 37 | |
| 2017 | — | #4,594 | 21 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,885 | 41 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,600 | 47 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,661 | 45 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,265 | 33 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,869 | 41 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,376 | 53 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,072 | 37 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,451 | 52 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,467 | 51 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,164 | 62 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,248 | 56 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,889 | 67 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,834 | 67 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,451 | 90 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,332 | 99 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,110 | 128 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,009 | 145 | |
| 1999 | — | #786 | 195 | |
| 1998 | — | #770 | 205 | |
| 1997 | — | #799 | 183 | |
| 1996 | — | #682 | 239 | |
| 1995 | — | #665 | 248 | |
| 1994 | — | #521 | 377 | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #663 | 241 |
| 1992 | — | #873 | 146 | |
| 1991 | — | #995 | 116 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,058 | 100 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,294 | 71 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,618 | 44 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,684 | 40 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,007 | 29 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,019 | 28 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,706 | 17 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,085 | 25 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,596 | 18 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,338 | 21 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,110 | 25 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,157 | 23 | |
| 1978 | — | #927 | 87 | |
| 1977 | — | #4,164 | 8 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,724 | 9 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,941 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dequan! It came in at #3,941, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1977, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
See more about Dequan
- 1,290 spots since 2024 (#5,904 → #7,194)
- 3,920 spots since 2020 (#3,274 → #7,194)
- 4,594 spots since 2015 (#2,600 → #7,194)
- Biggest jump: 3,237 spots in 1978 (#4,164 → #927)
- Biggest drop: 1,230 spots in 1979 (#927 → #2,157)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 1994 at #521 (377 births)
- Births halved by 1997, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 1991–1999
- Highest: 1 in 5,125 boys born in 1994 were named Dequan (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 53.2% of all boys named Dequan (2,050) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 135 | #927 (1978) | #2,983 |
| 1980s | 318 | #1,294 (1989) | #2,046 |
| 1990s | 2,050 | #521 (1994) | #781 |
| 2000s | 817 | #1,009 (2000) | #1,796 |
| 2010s | 396 | #2,376 (2011) | #3,037 |
| 2020s | 134 | #3,274 (2020) | #4,849 |
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.
Dequan in 1993
Top girls' names in 1993
Top boys' names in 1993
More about 1993
girls
1,809,072 girls got a published name in 1993; 1 in 361,814 of them was named Dequan, which outranked 14.9% of the 15,801 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,359 names at #13,442; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,961,328 boys got a published name in 1993; 1 in 8,138 of them was named Dequan, which outranked 93.5% of the 10,170 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).