Deen
Deen was given to 76 boys in 2025, #1,996 among boys’ names; 996 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deen?
#1,996 among boys’ names, 2025
Deen rose from #2,930 in 2015 to #1,996 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 20.9 to 44.5 per million.
84 babies in 2023, the peak
Deen peaked in 2023, when 84 boys were given it, #1,882 among boys’ names. The 76 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 76 | #1,996 | 44.5 |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,138 | 40.0 |
| 2023 | 84 | #1,882 | 49.1 |
| 2022 | 72 | #2,083 | 41.2 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,382 | 32.6 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,085 | 21.4 |
| 2019 | 48 | #2,667 | 26.8 |
| 2018 | 51 | #2,516 | 28.1 |
| 2017 | 43 | #2,809 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,014 | 20.6 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #2,930 | 20.9 |
| 2014 | 39 | #2,943 | 20.3 |
| 2013 | 35 | #3,139 | 18.5 |
| 2012 | 37 | #3,064 | 19.5 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,130 | 12.6 |
| 2010 | 36 | #3,135 | 18.8 |
| 2009 | 26 | #3,941 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,300 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,329 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,126 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,233 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,306 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,460 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,167 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,510 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,364 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,270 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,551 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,327 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,045 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,660 | 3.0 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,262 | 3.2 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,186 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,427 | 3.3 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,620 | 2.8 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,853 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,830 | 2.7 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,640 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Deen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deen has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 38 years of records.
Girls and boys named Deen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deen, and how old are they?
An estimated 974 Americans named Deen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 853 people named Deen (70 women and girls, 783 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 596 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Where are babies named Deen born?
The states with the most babies named Deen are New York, Texas and New Jersey, with 76% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 14 | #926 | 2.0× |
| Texas | 9 | #1,784 | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #724 | 1.2× |
| California | 5 | #2,554 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,338 | 1.7× |
Where Deen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Deen is most over-represented in New York: since 1946 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Deen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 220,698 babies since 1880, Deen is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 76 of their 3,184 babies (2.4%), again the fourth 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 Deen
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 Deen and names like it
- Compare Deen and DeanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDeen peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deen since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Deen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Deen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.