girls:
367 births since 2006
#5349 (6th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1990
#3413 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1990
#6185 (20th percentile)
The name Dereon is the #6,185 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,561 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 20.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,413 (25.5% percentile) for all time with 1,194 births since 1990. For girls, it ranks #5,349 (6.4% percentile) for all time with 367 births since 2006.
Dereon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (1990 for boys and 2006 for girls). Birth data for Dereon is available in 25 out of the 34 years between 1990 and 2023 (25 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 Dereon has been given predominantly to boys, with 76.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Dereon were boys.
For boys, Dereon reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 25.6% percentile (ranked #675) with 109 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 109 births per million (ranked 25.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dereon ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 3.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dereon reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 9.0% percentile (ranked #873) with 45 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 45 births per million (ranked 9.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dereon".
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Our model has identified 13 different pronunciations for the name Dereon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 19.5% confident that Dereon is pronounced as DEH-ree-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is der-EE-uhn, at 17.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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