Deane — #12381 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Deane

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,752 babies named Deane between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Deane currently holds the #12381 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1947, when 69 babies received it in a single year. Deane is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,304 additional births since 1892.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Deane performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 522 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Deane shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Iowa, which accounts for 70 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Deane in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Deane 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 2,752 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.