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

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Peak · boys
1994 · 377 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
3,850
since 1975

Dequan over time

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Rank among boys' names. Dequan has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201998peak #521, 1994boys
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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#7,19411
2024#5,90415
2023#4,45623
2022#3,77429
2021#4,49422
2020#3,27434
2019#2,94341
2018#3,10637
2017#4,59421
2016#2,88541
2015#2,60047
2014#2,66145
2013#3,26533
2012#2,86941
2011#2,37653
2010#3,07237
2009#2,45152
2008#2,46751
2007#2,16462
2006#2,24856
2005#1,88967
2004#1,83467
2003#1,45190
2002#1,33299
2001#1,110128
2000#1,009145
1999#786195
1998#770205
1997#799183
1996#682239
1995#665248
1994#521377
1993#13,4425#663241
1992#873146
1991#995116
1990#1,058100
1989#1,29471
1988#1,61844
1987#1,68440
1986#2,00729
1985#2,01928
1984#2,70617
1983#2,08525
1982#2,59618
1981#2,33821
1980#2,11025
1979#2,15723
1978#92787
1977#4,1648
1976#3,7249
1975#3,9418
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First appearance
1975

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
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
19 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1975
  • Peaked 1994 at #521 (377 births)
  • Births halved by 1997, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 10 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 1991–1999
Share of babies · boys
1 in 5,125
  • 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%)
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 53.2% of all boys named Dequan (2,050) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s135#927 (1978)#2,983
1980s318#1,294 (1989)#2,046
1990s2,050#521 (1994)#781
2000s817#1,009 (2000)#1,796
2010s396#2,376 (2011)#3,037
2020s134#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 1998

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#770
205 births · 1 in 9,324 boys

Top boys' names in 1998

  1. #1Michael36,618
  2. #2Jacob36,031
  3. #3Matthew31,146
  4. #4Joshua28,095
  5. #5Christopher27,007
  6. #6Nicholas26,632
  7. #7Brandon23,832
  8. #8Tyler23,712
  9. #9Andrew23,664
  10. #10Austin23,478
  11. #770Dequan205
More about 1998

boys

1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 9,324 of them was named Dequan, which outranked 93.2% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Dequan
  1. #767Don207
  2. #767Zakary207
  3. #769Duane206
  4. #770Dequan205
  5. #771Nash204
  6. #771Tahj204
  7. #771Terence204
Biggest movers since 1997
Risers
  1. 1,736Tyrese#2,347#611
  2. 805Zion#1,499#694
  3. 785Mekhi#1,706#921
  4. 743Tyriq#1,519#776
  5. 741Tavian#1,599#858
Fallers
  1. 429Coty#918#1,347
  2. 367Anfernee#838#1,205
  3. 326Jessy#962#1,288
  4. 295Mickey#966#1,261
  5. 280Mikal#1,000#1,280

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

See the top 100 for 1998