Deakon
Deakon was given to 15 boys in 2025, #5,916 among boys’ names; 493 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deakon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deakon?
#5,916 among boys’ names, 2025
Deakon fell from #3,905 in 2015 to #5,916 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.1 to 8.8 per million.
30 babies in 2013, the peak
Deakon peaked in 2013, when 30 boys were given it, #3,516 among boys’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #5,916 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 20 | #4,923 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 15 | #5,996 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,679 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,601 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,074 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 30 | #3,648 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,367 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,143 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,903 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #3,905 | 14.1 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,571 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 30 | #3,516 | 15.9 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,705 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,695 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,298 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,061 | 12.6 |
| 2008 | 26 | #3,953 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 26 | #3,921 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 29 | #3,538 | 14.1 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,636 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,063 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,625 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,176 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,185 | 7.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Deakon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deakon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Deakon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deakon, and how old are they?
An estimated 488 Americans named Deakon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 377 people named Deakon (0 women and girls, 377 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 394 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below 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).
How common is the spelling Deakon?
Deakon is a less common spelling of Deacon: SSA has recorded 493 Deakon and 11,570 Deacon since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 12,546 babies since 1880, Deakon is the second most given (3.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 560 babies (2.7%), 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 Deakon
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 Deakon and names like it
- Compare Deakon and DeaconBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDeakon peaked in 2013.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deakon since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Deakon.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Deakon alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.