Deegan
Last seen for girls in 2016 at #12,876 · #2,020 for boys in 2025, 74 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2011 · 259 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,453since 1997
Deegan over time
Rank among boys' names. Deegan has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,020 | 74 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,673 | 100 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,711 | 98 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,792 | 91 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,529 | 115 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,609 | 100 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,401 | 126 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,458 | 119 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,213 | 151 | |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #1,169 | 163 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #1,111 | 173 |
| 2014 | — | #1,153 | 164 | |
| 2013 | — | #966 | 207 | |
| 2012 | — | #925 | 222 | |
| 2011 | — | #833 | 259 | |
| 2010 | — | #893 | 230 | |
| 2009 | — | #985 | 201 | |
| 2008 | — | #984 | 201 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,059 | 177 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,391 | 114 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,362 | 110 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,671 | 77 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,206 | 49 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,068 | 52 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,681 | 35 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,573 | 16 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,035 | 13 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,840 | 10 | |
| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Deegan! It came in at #8,110, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1997, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Deegan is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oklahoma#701 · 1 in 3,502
- Michigan#819 · 1 in 5,020
- Arizona#823 · 1 in 5,417
- Indiana#857 · 1 in 5,267
- Ohio#1,130 · 1 in 8,747
Best ever in a state: #113 in Wyoming, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oklahoma | #701 | 5 | 1 in 3,502 |
| Michigan | #819 | 8 | 1 in 5,020 |
| Arizona | #823 | 6 | 1 in 5,417 |
| Indiana | #857 | 6 | 1 in 5,267 |
| Ohio | #1,130 | 6 | 1 in 8,747 |
| New York | #1,418 | 7 | 1 in 12,253 |
| California | #1,605 | 10 | 1 in 17,987 |
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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 Deegan
- 347 spots since 2024 (#1,673 → #2,020)
- 411 spots since 2020 (#1,609 → #2,020)
- 909 spots since 2015 (#1,111 → #2,020)
- Biggest jump: 92 spots in 2010 (#985 → #893)
- Biggest drop: 187 spots in 2014 (#966 → #1,153)
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2011 at #833 (259 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2008–2013
- Highest: 1 in 7,333 boys born in 2011 were named Deegan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 23,082 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 52.5% of all boys named Deegan (1,814) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 29 | #5,035 (1999) | #6,328 |
| 2000s | 1,032 | #984 (2008) | #1,898 |
| 2010s | 1,814 | #833 (2011) | #1,112 |
| 2020s | 578 | #1,529 (2021) | #1,722 |
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.
Deegan in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 17,455 of them was named Deegan, which outranked 88.0% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,701Shalom99
- #1,701Viaan99
- #1,701Zealand99
- #1,711Deegan98
- #1,711Fred98
- #1,711Hansel98
- #1,711Jahari98
- #1,718Carsen97
- #1,718Gannon97
- #1,718Indigo97
Tied with 6 names at #1,711; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.