girls:
40 births since 1971
#5676 (1st percentile)
boys:
5.5k births since 1955
#1615 (65th percentile)
overall:
5.5k births since 1955
#3675 (53rd percentile)
The name Dejuan is the #3,675 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,498 recorded births since 1955. This represents the 52.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,615 (64.8% percentile) for all time with 5,458 births since 1955. For girls, it ranks #5,676 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 40 births since 1971.
Dejuan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1955 (1955 for boys and 1971 for girls). Birth data for Dejuan is available in 63 out of the 69 years between 1955 and 2023 (63 years for boys and 7 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 Dejuan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dejuan reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 21.3% percentile (ranked #555) with 81 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 81 births per million (ranked 21.3% percentile). Despite a low point around 2017, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Dejuan ranks #874 for boys (4.1% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 28.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dejuan reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #772) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1984.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dejuan".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Dejuan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.8% confident that Dejuan is pronounced as dih-WAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dihj-WAHN, at 18.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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