girls:
5 births since 1993
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
3.8k births since 1975
#2001 (56th percentile)
overall:
3.8k births since 1975
#4440 (43rd percentile)
The name Dequan is the #4,440 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,828 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 42.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 42.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,001 (56.4% percentile) for all time with 3,823 births since 1975. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1993.
Dequan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (1975 for boys and 1993 for girls).
The name Dequan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dequan reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 39.6% percentile (ranked #469) with 185 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 185 births per million (ranked 39.6% percentile). Despite a low point around 2017, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Dequan ranks #893 for boys (2.0% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 6.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dequan reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #865) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dequan".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Dequan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 23.1% confident that Dequan is pronounced as dihk-WAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dehk-WAHN, at 23.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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