Meaning not yet researched.
Deacon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 529 in 2025. Its best rank was #420 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #420 in 2014; #561 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Deacon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#561 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #420.
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Deacon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 529 boys in 2025. Peak: #420 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 734 (2014).
In 2025, 529 US boys were named Deacon, making it the 561st most common boys’ name of the year, down 9 places from #552 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 540 boys named Deacon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #420, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 734. For comparison, it was #453 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Deacon in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 15 babies. In all, 11,570 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,506 babies named Deacon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,782 US boys were named Deacon; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 651. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,229 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Deacon ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #157 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Deakon, Deakin and Deaken are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Deakon (493), Deakin (227), Deaken (177), Dequon (172), Deacan (79), Deakyn (38), Dekon (21), Decan (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Deacon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 12 | #157 | — |
| Mississippi | 12 | #266 | #554 |
| Nebraska | 8 | #305 | — |
| Kansas | 12 | #307 | #199 |
| Wisconsin | 18 | #307 | #362 |
| South Carolina | 16 | #332 | #282 |
| Alabama | 16 | #343 | #373 |
| Tennessee | 25 | #352 | #270 |
| Missouri | 18 | #352 | #395 |
| Ohio | 32 | #353 | #321 |
| Indiana | 21 | #354 | #271 |
| Kentucky | 14 | #358 | #325 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #364 | #444 |
| Iowa | 9 | #381 | #466 |
| Idaho | 6 | #388 | — |
| Oregon | 9 | #413 | #406 |
| Virginia | 17 | #457 | #363 |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #461 | #410 |
| North Carolina | 23 | #464 | #409 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #517 | #330 |
| Michigan | 16 | #522 | #462 |
| Washington | 13 | #536 | #368 |
| Illinois | 17 | #548 | #455 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #601 | #437 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #609 | #466 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #635 | #521 |
| Colorado | 8 | #639 | #339 |
| Florida | 24 | #668 | #539 |
| Georgia | 14 | #684 | #594 |
| Texas | 40 | #703 | #474 |
| Utah | 5 | #727 | #518 |
| Arizona | 8 | #736 | #532 |
| Maryland | 5 | #832 | #728 |
| New York | 9 | #1,229 | #908 |
| California | 11 | #1,528 | #631 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 529 | #561 |
| 2024 | — | — | 540 | #552 |
| 2023 | — | — | 555 | #534 |
| 2022 | — | — | 573 | #517 |
| 2021 | — | — | 631 | #475 |
| 2020 | — | — | 555 | #516 |
| 2019 | — | — | 562 | #509 |
| 2018 | — | — | 605 | #485 |
| 2017 | — | — | 581 | #499 |
| 2016 | — | — | 651 | #469 |
| 2015 | — | — | 669 | #453 |
| 2014 | — | — | 734 | #420 |
| 2013 | — | — | 656 | #438 |
| 2012 | — | — | 354 | #667 |
| 2011 | — | — | 358 | #657 |
| 2010 | — | — | 336 | #693 |
| 2009 | — | — | 353 | #686 |
| 2008 | — | — | 380 | #645 |
| 2007 | — | — | 386 | #630 |
| 2006 | — | — | 325 | #690 |
| 2005 | — | — | 240 | #801 |
| 2004 | — | — | 192 | #900 |
| 2003 | — | — | 127 | #1,177 |
| 2002 | — | — | 142 | #1,065 |
| 2001 | — | — | 126 | #1,118 |
| 2000 | — | — | 74 | #1,586 |
| 1999 | — | — | 46 | #2,071 |
| 1998 | — | — | 13 | #4,947 |
| 1997 | — | — | 15 | #4,291 |
| 1996 | — | — | 15 | #4,226 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,587 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,177 |
| 1993 | — | — | 11 | #5,079 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #7,661 |
| 1991 | — | — | 10 | #5,182 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,412 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,184 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,306 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,630 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,466 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,122 |
| 1984 | — | — | 11 | #3,762 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,599 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #5,809 |
| 1981 | — | — | 14 | #3,074 |
| 1980 | — | — | 10 | #3,904 |
| 1979 | — | — | 11 | #3,621 |
| 1978 | — | — | 15 | #2,825 |
| 1977 | — | — | 10 | #3,667 |
| 1976 | — | — | 16 | #2,631 |
| 1975 | — | — | 14 | #2,786 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #2,986 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,782 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,557 |
| 1971 | — | — | 15 | #2,479 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).