girls:
1.3k births since 1892
#4419 (23rd percentile)
boys:
2.7k births since 1912
#2407 (47th percentile)
overall:
4.1k births since 1892
#4310 (44th percentile)
The name Deane is the #4,310 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,051 recorded births since 1892. This represents the 44.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 44.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,407 (47.5% percentile) for all time with 2,747 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #4,419 (22.7% percentile) for all time with 1,304 births since 1892.
Deane first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1892 (1892 for girls and 1912 for boys). Birth data for Deane is available in 109 out of the 132 years between 1892 and 2023 (100 years for boys and 89 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Deane has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (67.8% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Deane were boys. Interestingly, until around 1915, the name was more popular for girls (71.9% girls from 1892 to 1914), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (69.0% boys from 1915 to 2023).
For boys, Deane reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 10.8% percentile (ranked #487) with 56 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 56 births per million (ranked 10.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Deane ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 6.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Deane reached its peak popularity in 1951, achieving the 3.7% percentile (ranked #673) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1892, with 27 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Deane".
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