Meaning not yet researched.
Dequan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #521 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #521 in 1994; #7,304 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dequan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,304 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #521.
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Dequan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #521 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 377 (1994).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Dequan, making it the 7,304th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,323 places from #5,981 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 15 boys named Dequan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #521, reached in 1994. That year also had the most boys given the name: 377. For comparison, it was #2,613 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dequan in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 8 babies. In all, 3,855 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,055 babies named Dequan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 274 US boys were named Dequan; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 41. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Diquan, Dyquan and Dequann 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: Diquan (388), Dyquan (191), Dequann (72), Dequane (67), Dequinn (20), Dekan (18), Deaquan (13), Deekan (5), Dequone (5), Diaquan (5), Diquon (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 Dequan 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 | — | — | 11 | #7,304 |
| 2024 | — | — | 15 | #5,981 |
| 2023 | — | — | 23 | #4,490 |
| 2022 | — | — | 29 | #3,793 |
| 2021 | — | — | 22 | #4,526 |
| 2020 | — | — | 34 | #3,288 |
| 2019 | — | — | 41 | #2,955 |
| 2018 | — | — | 37 | #3,119 |
| 2017 | — | — | 21 | #4,637 |
| 2016 | — | — | 41 | #2,898 |
| 2015 | — | — | 47 | #2,613 |
| 2014 | — | — | 45 | #2,674 |
| 2013 | — | — | 33 | #3,280 |
| 2012 | — | — | 41 | #2,876 |
| 2011 | — | — | 53 | #2,384 |
| 2010 | — | — | 37 | #3,087 |
| 2009 | — | — | 52 | #2,462 |
| 2008 | — | — | 51 | #2,479 |
| 2007 | — | — | 62 | #2,170 |
| 2006 | — | — | 56 | #2,256 |
| 2005 | — | — | 67 | #1,894 |
| 2004 | — | — | 67 | #1,841 |
| 2003 | — | — | 90 | #1,456 |
| 2002 | — | — | 99 | #1,334 |
| 2001 | — | — | 128 | #1,110 |
| 2000 | — | — | 145 | #1,009 |
| 1999 | — | — | 195 | #788 |
| 1998 | — | — | 205 | #770 |
| 1997 | — | — | 183 | #801 |
| 1996 | — | — | 239 | #683 |
| 1995 | — | — | 248 | #665 |
| 1994 | — | — | 377 | #521 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,063 | 241 | #664 |
| 1992 | — | — | 146 | #873 |
| 1991 | — | — | 116 | #995 |
| 1990 | — | — | 100 | #1,061 |
| 1989 | — | — | 71 | #1,297 |
| 1988 | — | — | 44 | #1,623 |
| 1987 | — | — | 40 | #1,689 |
| 1986 | — | — | 29 | #2,017 |
| 1985 | — | — | 28 | #2,029 |
| 1984 | — | — | 17 | #2,727 |
| 1983 | — | — | 25 | #2,104 |
| 1982 | — | — | 18 | #2,620 |
| 1981 | — | — | 21 | #2,363 |
| 1980 | — | — | 25 | #2,128 |
| 1979 | — | — | 23 | #2,177 |
| 1978 | — | — | 87 | #928 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,268 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,791 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,043 |
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).