girls:
77 births since 1970
#5639 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.6k births since 1966
#2495 (46th percentile)
overall:
2.6k births since 1966
#5220 (33rd percentile)
The name Dejon is the #5,220 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,644 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 32.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 32.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,495 (45.6% percentile) for all time with 2,567 births since 1966. For girls, it ranks #5,639 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 77 births since 1970.
Dejon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (1966 for boys and 1970 for girls). Birth data for Dejon is available in 55 out of the 58 years between 1966 and 2023 (54 years for boys and 12 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 Dejon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dejon reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 15.2% percentile (ranked #653) with 59 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 59 births per million (ranked 14.3% percentile). Despite a low point around 2016, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Dejon ranks #897 for boys (1.5% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 17.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dejon reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #842) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dejon".
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Our model has identified 20 different pronunciations for the name Dejon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 18.2% confident that Dejon is pronounced as dih-ZHAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEH-jahn, at 11.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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