Deon
Deon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 148 births. Its best rank was 473rd, in 1994.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1480.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1994456 births
- Best rank
- #473in 1994
- Since 1922
- 16,855people given the name
The story in the numbers
15,185 boys have been named Deon in the United States since 1922, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1994, with 456 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 1993, and the 1990s alone account for 24%. It has spent 52 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,670 girls have also been given it, 9.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Deon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 41 | |
| 1930s | 104 | |
| 1940s | 106 | |
| 1950s | 148 | |
| 1960s | 1,130 | |
| 1970s | 2,401 | |
| 1980s | 2,312 | |
| 1990s | 3,673 | |
| 2000s | 2,553 | |
| 2010s | 1,937 | |
| 2020s | 780 |
In 1994, its biggest year
Deon was the 473rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1994 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Tyler. See all of 1994.
Names that rose and fell with Deon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Demetriuspeak 1991
- Jeanpierrepeak 1997
- Demetriouspeak 1991
- Delonpeak 1993
- Tyronpeak 1990
- Efrainpeak 1993
- Eronpeak 1981
- Kenrickpeak 1990
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.