Meaning not yet researched.
Deion: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 93 in 2025. Its best rank was #411 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #411 in 1996; #1,744 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Deion in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,744 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #411.
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Deion: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 93 boys in 2025. Peak: #411 in 1996 · most boys in one year: 566 (1996).
In 2025, 93 US boys were named Deion, making it the 1,744th most common boys’ name of the year, down 133 places from #1,611 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 106 boys named Deion in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #411, reached in 1996. That year also had the most boys given the name: 566. For comparison, it was #1,397 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Deion in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 5 babies. In all, 6,166 US babies have been given the name, 2.0% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,753 babies named Deion.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,057 US boys were named Deion; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 120. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,366 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Deion ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #833 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dion (20,164 babies since 1880), Deon (16,988 babies since 1880), Dean (195,844 babies since 1880) and Deann (10,185 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Deion 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 5 | #833 | — |
| Texas | 22 | #1,044 | #1,043 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,210 | #1,043 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,247 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 93 | #1,744 |
| 2024 | — | — | 106 | #1,611 |
| 2023 | — | — | 104 | #1,654 |
| 2022 | — | — | 101 | #1,695 |
| 2021 | — | — | 117 | #1,514 |
| 2020 | — | — | 101 | #1,604 |
| 2019 | — | — | 95 | #1,682 |
| 2018 | — | — | 108 | #1,554 |
| 2017 | — | — | 112 | #1,499 |
| 2016 | — | — | 120 | #1,445 |
| 2015 | — | — | 123 | #1,397 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,227 | 130 | #1,336 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,223 | 115 | #1,434 |
| 2012 | — | — | 136 | #1,286 |
| 2011 | — | — | 126 | #1,344 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,688 | 110 | #1,483 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,736 | 116 | #1,444 |
| 2008 | — | — | 184 | #1,033 |
| 2007 | — | — | 107 | #1,488 |
| 2006 | — | — | 116 | #1,381 |
| 2005 | — | — | 120 | #1,284 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,782 | 101 | #1,405 |
| 2003 | — | — | 132 | #1,143 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,087 | 132 | #1,108 |
| 2001 | — | — | 99 | #1,318 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,662 | 175 | #893 |
| 1999 | — | — | 212 | #756 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,139 | 186 | #811 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,218 | 303 | #590 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,855 | 566 | #411 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,175 | 558 | #411 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,989 | 318 | #580 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,043 | 241 | #663 |
| 1992 | — | — | 190 | #749 |
| 1991 | — | — | 61 | #1,454 |
| 1990 | — | — | 60 | #1,456 |
| 1989 | — | — | 71 | #1,295 |
| 1988 | — | — | 16 | #3,246 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,072 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,554 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #5,966 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #5,746 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,217 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #5,814 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,499 |
| 1980 | — | — | 13 | #3,298 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #4,962 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,659 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,256 |
| 1976 | — | — | 11 | #3,318 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #4,944 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #2,988 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,733 | — | — |
| 1972 | — | — | 10 | #3,206 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,077 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,275 | 6 | #4,355 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,535 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,786 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,047 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,961 | 7 | #3,313 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #2,901 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,732 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,380 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,420 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,030 | — | — |
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).