girls:
14 births since 1986
#5702 (0th percentile)
boys:
947 births since 1917
#3644 (20th percentile)
overall:
961 births since 1917
#6778 (12th percentile)
The name Deleon is the #6,778 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 961 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 12.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,644 (20.5% percentile) for all time with 947 births since 1917. For girls, it ranks #5,702 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 14 births since 1986.
Deleon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for boys and 1986 for girls). Birth data for Deleon is available in 81 out of the 107 years between 1917 and 2023 (81 years for boys and 2 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 Deleon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Deleon reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #664) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). Despite a peak around 2020, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Deleon ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 59.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Deleon reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #811) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Deleon".
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Our model has identified 15 different pronunciations for the name Deleon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 25.6% confident that Deleon is pronounced as DEH-lee-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is deh-LEE-uhn, at 11.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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