Meaning not yet researched.
Dejuan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #720 in 1985.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #720 in 1985; #3,868 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dejuan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,868 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1985, at #720.
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Dejuan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 boys in 2025. Peak: #720 in 1985 · most boys in one year: 165 (1990).
In 2025, 28 US boys were named Dejuan, making it the 3,868th most common boys’ name of the year, down 396 places from #3,472 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 33 boys named Dejuan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #720, reached in 1985. The most boys given the name in a single year was 165, in 1990. For comparison, it was #2,258 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dejuan in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 8 babies. In all, 5,560 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,401 babies named Dejuan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 422 US boys were named Dejuan; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 55. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,003 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dejon (2,683 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dejaun, Dejohn and Dejan 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dejaun (460), Dejohn (435), Dejan (330), Dejean (198), Dejane (161), Dejion (87), Dijuan (66), Dejuane (26), Dejoun (21), Dejahn (14), Dejun (5).
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 Dejuan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 28 | #3,868 |
| 2024 | — | — | 33 | #3,472 |
| 2023 | — | — | 42 | #2,961 |
| 2022 | — | — | 40 | #3,064 |
| 2021 | — | — | 39 | #3,088 |
| 2020 | — | — | 37 | #3,087 |
| 2019 | — | — | 53 | #2,495 |
| 2018 | — | — | 55 | #2,396 |
| 2017 | — | — | 45 | #2,723 |
| 2016 | — | — | 50 | #2,524 |
| 2015 | — | — | 59 | #2,258 |
| 2014 | — | — | 62 | #2,182 |
| 2013 | — | — | 51 | #2,433 |
| 2012 | — | — | 56 | #2,301 |
| 2011 | — | — | 68 | #2,006 |
| 2010 | — | — | 77 | #1,870 |
| 2009 | — | — | 87 | #1,759 |
| 2008 | — | — | 87 | #1,740 |
| 2007 | — | — | 99 | #1,583 |
| 2006 | — | — | 109 | #1,429 |
| 2005 | — | — | 102 | #1,445 |
| 2004 | — | — | 112 | #1,320 |
| 2003 | — | — | 108 | #1,297 |
| 2002 | — | — | 114 | #1,211 |
| 2001 | — | — | 124 | #1,130 |
| 2000 | — | — | 117 | #1,172 |
| 1999 | — | — | 141 | #998 |
| 1998 | — | — | 143 | #967 |
| 1997 | — | — | 160 | #871 |
| 1996 | — | — | 141 | #927 |
| 1995 | — | — | 123 | #999 |
| 1994 | — | — | 129 | #973 |
| 1993 | — | — | 130 | #942 |
| 1992 | — | — | 130 | #938 |
| 1991 | — | — | 139 | #893 |
| 1990 | — | — | 165 | #790 |
| 1989 | — | — | 132 | #875 |
| 1988 | — | — | 134 | #817 |
| 1987 | — | — | 122 | #846 |
| 1986 | — | — | 156 | #725 |
| 1985 | — | — | 151 | #720 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,384 | 125 | #773 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,471 | 129 | #761 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,887 | 113 | #834 |
| 1981 | — | — | 140 | #731 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,774 | 110 | #843 |
| 1979 | — | — | 128 | #767 |
| 1978 | — | — | 109 | #817 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,969 | 102 | #848 |
| 1976 | — | — | 107 | #803 |
| 1975 | — | — | 97 | #842 |
| 1974 | — | — | 79 | #915 |
| 1973 | — | — | 62 | #1,023 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,561 | 50 | #1,154 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,629 | 51 | #1,153 |
| 1970 | — | — | 31 | #1,526 |
| 1969 | — | — | 34 | #1,380 |
| 1968 | — | — | 25 | #1,586 |
| 1967 | — | — | 19 | #1,823 |
| 1966 | — | — | 11 | #2,509 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,619 |
| 1964 | — | — | 18 | #1,916 |
| 1963 | — | — | 11 | #2,565 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,164 |
| 1955 | — | — | 8 | #3,022 |
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).