Dejon
Last seen for girls in 1999 at #10,345 · #5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
Given to boys 97.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1992 · 123 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,606since 1966
Dejon over time
Rank among boys' names. Dejon has never cracked the top 900 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 | — | #5,399 | 17 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,571 | 22 | |
| 2023 | — | #5,075 | 19 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,019 | 19 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,247 | 24 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,698 | 20 | |
| 2019 | — | #5,340 | 17 | |
| 2018 | — | #4,476 | 22 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,006 | 39 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,990 | 26 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,882 | 27 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,693 | 28 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,339 | 32 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,807 | 27 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,663 | 45 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,579 | 47 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,320 | 56 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,207 | 60 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,951 | 72 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,205 | 58 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,008 | 62 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,687 | 76 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,646 | 76 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,636 | 73 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,379 | 92 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,188 | 114 | |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #1,106 | 120 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #1,085 | 119 |
| 1997 | — | #1,134 | 110 | |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | #1,180 | 97 |
| 1995 | — | #1,137 | 101 | |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | #1,070 | 109 |
| 1993 | — | #1,047 | 111 | |
| 1992 | — | #974 | 123 | |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #981 | 119 |
| 1990 | — | #1,420 | 62 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,294 | 71 | |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #1,592 | 45 |
| 1987 | — | #1,734 | 38 | |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | #2,290 | 24 |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #2,116 | 26 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #2,613 | 18 |
| 1983 | — | #1,955 | 27 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,831 | 16 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,030 | 14 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,495 | 8 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,842 | 7 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,400 | 11 | |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #3,203 | 12 |
| 1976 | — | #3,724 | 9 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,445 | 9 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #3,836 | 7 |
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| 1966 | — | #3,249 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dejon! It came in at #3,249, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1967–1969, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Dejon is popular in 1989
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#583 · 1 in 7,869
- California#817 · 1 in 13,433
- New York#879 · 1 in 13,491
Best ever in a state: #380 in Connecticut, 1995.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #583 | 7 | 1 in 7,869 |
| California | #817 | 20 | 1 in 13,433 |
| New York | #879 | 10 | 1 in 13,491 |
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See more about Dejon
- 828 spots since 2024 (#4,571 → #5,399)
- 701 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #5,399)
- 1,517 spots since 2015 (#3,882 → #5,399)
- Biggest jump: 439 spots in 1991 (#1,420 → #981)
- Biggest drop: 73 spots in 1993 (#974 → #1,047)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 1992 at #974 (123 births)
- Births halved by 2006, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1991–1992
- Highest: 1 in 16,001 boys born in 1999 were named Dejon (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,475 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #974 in 1992, was only 1 in 16,239 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 41.1% of all boys named Dejon (1,071) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7 | #3,249 (1966) | #3,249 |
| 1970s | 71 | #3,203 (1977) | #4,162 |
| 1980s | 287 | #1,294 (1989) | #2,395 |
| 1990s | 1,071 | #974 (1992) | #1,113 |
| 2000s | 739 | #1,188 (2000) | #1,823 |
| 2010s | 310 | #2,579 (2010) | #3,678 |
| 2020s | 121 | #4,247 (2021) | #4,835 |
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.
Dejon in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 28,182 of them was named Dejon, which outranked 86.0% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,281Sharif72
- #1,281Talon72
- #1,281Taurean72
- #1,294Dejon71
- #1,294Codi71
- #1,294Deion71
- #1,294Dequan71
- #1,308Aurelio70
- #1,308Darrion70
- #1,308Dayne70
Tied with 13 names at #1,294; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.