Deacon — #550 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Deacon

The Social Security Administration has registered 11,038 babies named Deacon between 1971 and 2024, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Deacon currently holds the #550 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 734 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Deacon performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 5,505 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Deacon shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 965 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Deacon in 45 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Deacon in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 11,038 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.