Daequan
Daequan was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,436 among boys’ names; 797 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daequan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daequan?
#12,436 among boys’ names, 2025
Daequan fell from #6,403 in 2015 to #12,436 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 2.9 per million.
59 babies in 1996, the peak
Daequan peaked in 1996, when 59 boys were given it, #1,637 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,436 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,524 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,062 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,053 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,289 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,880 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,403 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,159 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 14 | #5,980 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,158 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 | #7,609 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,873 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,057 | 12.6 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,159 | 11.8 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,196 | 16.9 |
| 2006 | 29 | #3,533 | 14.1 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,219 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 29 | #3,295 | 14.6 |
| 2003 | 42 | #2,480 | 21.3 |
| 2002 | 33 | #2,823 | 17.0 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,088 | 25.7 |
| 2000 | 54 | #1,927 | 27.5 |
| 1999 | 55 | #1,800 | 28.6 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,014 | 24.6 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,172 | 21.2 |
| 1996 | 59 | #1,637 | 31.1 |
| 1995 | 44 | #1,917 | 23.1 |
| 1994 | 39 | #2,086 | 20.2 |
| 1993 | 23 | #2,949 | 11.7 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,634 | 8.5 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,271 | 6.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Daequan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daequan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Daequan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daequan, and how old are they?
An estimated 780 Americans named Daequan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 19 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 551 people named Daequan (7 women and girls, 544 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 776 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,041 babies since 1880, Daequan is the second most given (7.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 47 babies (11%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Daequan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Daequan and names like it
- Compare Daequan and DaquanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDaequan peaked in 1996.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daequan since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Daequan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daequan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.