boys:
458 births since 2001
#4128 (10th percentile)
overall:
458 births since 2001
#7281 (6th percentile)
The name Deakon is the #7,281 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 458 recorded births since 2001. This represents the 5.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,128 (9.9% percentile) for all time with 458 births since 2001.
Deakon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2001 (first recorded for boys in 2001).
For boys, Deakon reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #863) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 16 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). Despite a low point around 2018, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Deakon ranks #901 for boys (1.1% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 52.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Deakon".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Deakon is pronounced as DEE-kuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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