Dequan
Dequan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 15 births. Its best rank was 521st, in 1994.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 150.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1994377 births
- Best rank
- #521in 1994
- Since 1975
- 3,839people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,839 boys have been named Dequan in the United States since 1975, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1994, with 377 births.
The name has all but left use: 15 births in 2024, against 377 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 1990s alone account for 53%. It has spent 10 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1994, its biggest year
Dequan was the 521st 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 Dequan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shaquanpeak 1994
- Diantepeak 1995
- Daquanpeak 1994
- Tylorpeak 1993
- Deontepeak 1995
- Ladariuspeak 1995
- Devontapeak 1992
- Dondrepeak 1994
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.