Deacon
#561 for boys in 2025, 529 births
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 734 births
- Debut · boys
- 15 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 11,570since 1971
Deacon over time
Rank among boys' names. Deacon has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #561 | 529 |
| 2024 | #552 | 540 |
| 2023 | #533 | 555 |
| 2022 | #517 | 573 |
| 2021 | #475 | 631 |
| 2020 | #516 | 555 |
| 2019 | #509 | 562 |
| 2018 | #485 | 605 |
| 2017 | #499 | 581 |
| 2016 | #469 | 651 |
| 2015 | #453 | 669 |
| 2014 | #420 | 734 |
| 2013 | #438 | 656 |
| 2012 | #667 | 354 |
| 2011 | #655 | 358 |
| 2010 | #693 | 336 |
| 2009 | #686 | 353 |
| 2008 | #644 | 380 |
| 2007 | #629 | 386 |
| 2006 | #690 | 325 |
| 2005 | #801 | 240 |
| 2004 | #899 | 192 |
| 2003 | #1,173 | 127 |
| 2002 | #1,064 | 142 |
| 2001 | #1,118 | 126 |
| 2000 | #1,585 | 74 |
| 1999 | #2,063 | 46 |
| 1998 | #4,873 | 13 |
| 1997 | #4,246 | 15 |
| 1996 | #4,185 | 15 |
| 1995 | #5,501 | 10 |
| 1994 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #4,052 | 10 |
| 1984 | #3,701 | 11 |
| 1983 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #3,030 | 14 |
| 1980 | #3,838 | 10 |
| 1979 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #2,799 | 15 |
| 1977 | #3,606 | 10 |
| 1976 | #2,601 | 16 |
| 1975 | #2,751 | 14 |
| 1974 | #2,946 | 12 |
| 1973 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #2,464 | 15 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Deacon! It came in at #2,464, and was given to 15 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1989–1990, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Deacon is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Ohio#275 · 1 in 1,274
- Kentucky#281 · 1 in 1,163
- Oklahoma#292 · 1 in 1,107
- Nebraska#302 · 1 in 1,176
- North Carolina#304 · 1 in 1,393
Best ever in a state: #151 in West Virginia, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | #275 | 45 | 1 in 1,274 |
| Kentucky | #281 | 18 | 1 in 1,163 |
| Oklahoma | #292 | 17 | 1 in 1,107 |
| Nebraska | #302 | 8 | 1 in 1,176 |
| North Carolina | #304 | 36 | 1 in 1,393 |
| Alabama | #326 | 16 | 1 in 1,414 |
| Virginia | #336 | 25 | 1 in 1,629 |
| Iowa | #340 | 10 | 1 in 1,436 |
| Missouri | #345 | 19 | 1 in 1,597 |
| Arkansas | #358 | 9 | 1 in 1,503 |
| Minnesota | #367 | 16 | 1 in 1,667 |
| Oregon | #378 | 10 | 1 in 1,662 |
| Indiana | #380 | 18 | 1 in 1,887 |
| Wisconsin | #395 | 13 | 1 in 1,980 |
| Tennessee | #403 | 18 | 1 in 1,973 |
| South Carolina | #411 | 10 | 1 in 2,089 |
| Michigan | #412 | 22 | 1 in 2,086 |
| Utah | #430 | 10 | 1 in 1,950 |
| Georgia | #453 | 21 | 1 in 2,485 |
| Mississippi | #455 | 6 | 1 in 2,165 |
| Pennsylvania | #460 | 21 | 1 in 2,727 |
| Louisiana | #478 | 10 | 1 in 2,285 |
| Illinois | #479 | 22 | 1 in 2,712 |
| Colorado | #502 | 10 | 1 in 2,580 |
| Kansas | #518 | 6 | 1 in 2,423 |
| Texas | #536 | 52 | 1 in 3,363 |
| Washington | #646 | 9 | 1 in 3,834 |
| Arizona | #657 | 8 | 1 in 4,274 |
| California | #662 | 40 | 1 in 5,163 |
| Florida | #745 | 18 | 1 in 5,324 |
| Maryland | #776 | 5 | 1 in 5,277 |
| New York | #865 | 14 | 1 in 6,839 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Deacon
- 9 spots since 2024 (#552 → #561)
- 45 spots since 2020 (#516 → #561)
- 108 spots since 2015 (#453 → #561)
- Biggest jump: 274 spots in 2004 (#1,173 → #899)
- Biggest drop: 42 spots in 2009 (#644 → #686)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2014 at #420 (734 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 2004–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,617 boys born in 2014 were named Deacon (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,229 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 47.6% of all boys named Deacon (5,506) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 107 | #2,464 (1971) | #3,208 |
| 1980s | 87 | #3,030 (1981) | #4,767 |
| 1990s | 142 | #2,063 (1999) | #5,161 |
| 2000s | 2,345 | #629 (2007) | #929 |
| 2010s | 5,506 | #420 (2014) | #529 |
| 2020s | 3,383 | #475 (2021) | #526 |
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.
Deacon in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 3,002 of them was named Deacon, which outranked 96.6% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.