boys:
198 births since 1982
#4388 (4th percentile)
overall:
198 births since 1982
#7541 (3rd percentile)
The name Dejean is the #7,541 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 198 recorded births since 1982. This represents the 2.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,388 (4.3% percentile) for all time with 198 births since 1982.
Dejean first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1982 (first recorded for boys in 1982). Birth data for Dejean is available in 24 out of the 41 years between 1982 and 2022. 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.
For boys, Dejean reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #793) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dejean".
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Our model has identified 18 different pronunciations for the name Dejean. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 12.8% confident that Dejean is pronounced as dih-ZHEEN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is deh-JEEN, at 10.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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