Deakin
Deakin was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 227 Americans have been recorded with it between 2002 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deakin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deakin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,773, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 2011, the peak
Deakin peaked in 2011, when 21 boys were given it, #4,536 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #12,773 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,916 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,969 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,829 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,302 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,111 | 7.4 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,762 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,281 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,218 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,704 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 21 | #4,536 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,712 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,172 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,541 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,255 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,358 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,467 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,300 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,175 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Deakin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deakin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Deakin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deakin, and how old are they?
An estimated 225 Americans named Deakin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 11 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 228 people named Deakin (0 women and girls, 228 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 216 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 12,546 babies since 1880, Deakin is the third most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 560 babies recorded by SSA was a Deakin (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Deakin
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 Deakin and names like it
- Compare Deakin and DeaconBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDeakin peaked in 2011.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Deakin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Deakin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.