Deion
Deion was given to 93 boys in 2025, #1,744 among boys’ names; 6,166 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,020 Americans named Deion and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 14 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deion by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Deion mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Deion is “a male given name of African-American usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Deion?
#1,744 among boys’ names, 2025
Deion fell from #1,397 in 2015 to #1,744 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 64.2 to 54.4 per million.
582 babies in 1996, the peak
Deion peaked in 1996, when 582 babies were given it (566 boys, #411 among boys’ names). The 93 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 93 | #1,744 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 106 | #1,611 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 104 | #1,654 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 101 | #1,695 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 117 | #1,514 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 101 | #1,604 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 95 | #1,682 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 108 | #1,554 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 112 | #1,499 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 120 | #1,445 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 123 | #1,397 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 130 | #1,336 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 115 | #1,434 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 136 | #1,286 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 126 | #1,344 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 110 | #1,483 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 116 | #1,444 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 184 | #1,033 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 107 | #1,488 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 116 | #1,381 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 120 | #1,283 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 101 | #1,403 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 132 | #1,142 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 132 | #1,107 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 99 | #1,314 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 175 | #891 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 212 | #754 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 186 | #810 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 303 | #590 | 0.16 |
| 1996 | 566 | #411 | 0.30 |
| 1995 | 558 | #411 | 0.29 |
| 1994 | 318 | #579 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 241 | #662 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 190 | #747 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 61 | #1,448 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 60 | #1,451 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,290 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,241 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,065 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,550 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,961 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,742 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,215 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,812 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,497 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,297 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #4,960 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,656 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,254 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,316 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,942 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #2,986 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,204 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,075 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,353 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,534 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,785 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,046 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,312 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,900 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,731 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,379 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Deion a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,166 Americans recorded as Deion, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 93 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Deion: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deion, and how old are they?
6,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,166 Americans ever recorded as Deion. The median Deion alive today is 26 years old; half are between 14 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 4,498 people named Deion (184 women and girls, 4,314 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,467 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 27 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 114 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,090 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,360 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,420 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Deion born?
The states with the most babies named Deion are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 88% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 22 | #1,044 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,210 | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,247 | 2.1× |
| Maryland | 5 | #833 | 0.7× |
Where Deion is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Deion is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1955 it was given 2.1 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 Deion 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, Deion is the third most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 93 of their 3,184 babies (2.9%), again the third 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 Deion
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 Deion and names like it
- Compare Deion and DeanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDeion peaked in 1996.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deion since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Deion.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Deion alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.