girls:
35 births since 1967
#5681 (1st percentile)
boys:
5.7k births since 1956
#1573 (66th percentile)
overall:
5.7k births since 1956
#3598 (54th percentile)
The name Deron is the #3,598 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,715 recorded births since 1956. This represents the 53.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 53.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,573 (65.7% percentile) for all time with 5,680 births since 1956. For girls, it ranks #5,681 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 35 births since 1967.
Deron first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1956 (1956 for boys and 1967 for girls). Birth data for Deron is available in 67 out of the 68 years between 1956 and 2023 (67 years for boys and 6 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 Deron has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Deron reached its peak popularity in 1966, achieving the 35.3% percentile (ranked #413) with 149 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 149 births per million (ranked 35.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Deron ranks #894 for boys (1.9% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 8.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Deron reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #804) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% 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 "Deron".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Deron. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 37.2% confident that Deron is pronounced as DEH-ruhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is deh-RAHN, at 18.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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