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Dejon

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Dejon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 21 births. Its best rank was 975th, in 1992.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
210.00% of boys
Peak year
1992123 births
Best rank
#975in 1992
Since 1966
2,665people given the name
Babies named Dejon, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

2,588 boys have been named Dejon in the United States since 1966, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1992, with 123 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 1990s alone account for 41%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 77 girls have also been given it, 2.9% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Dejon
1960s7
1970s71
1980s287
1990s1,071
2000s739
2010s310
2020s103

In 1992, its biggest year

Dejon was the 975th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1992 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1992.

Names that rose and fell with Dejon

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.