girls:
123 births since 1955
#5593 (2nd percentile)
boys:
5.8k births since 1962
#1546 (66th percentile)
overall:
6k births since 1955
#3511 (55th percentile)
The name Deion is the #3,511 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,965 recorded births since 1955. This represents the 54.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,546 (66.3% percentile) for all time with 5,842 births since 1962. For girls, it ranks #5,593 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 123 births since 1955.
Deion first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1955 (1955 for girls and 1962 for boys). Birth data for Deion is available in 63 out of the 69 years between 1955 and 2023 (60 years for boys and 18 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 Deion has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.9% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1962, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1955 to 1961), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (98.1% boys from 1962 to 2023).
For boys, Deion reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 51.7% percentile (ranked #387) with 277 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 282 births per million (ranked 50.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Deion ranks #812 for boys (10.9% percentile) with 57 births per million, which is 20.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Deion reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #848) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Deion".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Deion. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.1% confident that Deion is pronounced as DEE-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEE-ahn, at 26.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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