girls:
12 births since 2015
#5704 (0th percentile)
boys:
3.3k births since 1997
#2182 (52nd percentile)
overall:
3.3k births since 1997
#4760 (38th percentile)
The name Deegan is the #4,760 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,291 recorded births since 1997. This represents the 38.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 38.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,182 (52.4% percentile) for all time with 3,279 births since 1997. For girls, it ranks #5,704 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 2015.
Deegan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1997 (1997 for boys and 2015 for girls).
The name Deegan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Deegan reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 28.2% percentile (ranked #633) with 127 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 127 births per million (ranked 28.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Deegan ranks #818 for boys (10.2% percentile) with 54 births per million, which is 42.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Deegan reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #955) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Deegan".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Deegan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.2% confident that Deegan is pronounced as DEE-guhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dee-guhn, at 12.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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