Dejon
Dejon was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,437 among boys’ names; 2,683 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,600 Americans named Dejon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 20 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dejon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dejon?
#5,437 among boys’ names, 2025
Dejon fell from #3,906 in 2015 to #5,437 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.1 to 10.0 per million.
128 babies in 1999, the peak
Dejon peaked in 1999, when 128 babies were given it (120 boys, #1,105 among boys’ names). The 17 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,437 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 22 | #4,589 | 12.8 |
| 2023 | 19 | #5,110 | 11.1 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,067 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 24 | #4,272 | 13.7 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,736 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,390 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,505 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,023 | 21.1 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,018 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #3,906 | 14.1 |
| 2014 | 28 | #3,709 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 32 | #3,350 | 16.9 |
| 2012 | 27 | #3,818 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 45 | #2,673 | 23.7 |
| 2010 | 47 | #2,594 | 24.5 |
| 2009 | 56 | #2,325 | 28.2 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,210 | 29.4 |
| 2007 | 72 | #1,958 | 34.7 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,207 | 28.2 |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,006 | 31.0 |
| 2004 | 76 | #1,687 | 38.3 |
| 2003 | 76 | #1,646 | 38.5 |
| 2002 | 73 | #1,635 | 37.6 |
| 2001 | 92 | #1,376 | 47.4 |
| 2000 | 114 | #1,188 | 58.0 |
| 1999 | 120 | #1,105 | 62.5 |
| 1998 | 119 | #1,084 | 62.3 |
| 1997 | 110 | #1,132 | 58.4 |
| 1996 | 97 | #1,179 | 51.2 |
| 1995 | 101 | #1,134 | 53.1 |
| 1994 | 109 | #1,068 | 56.4 |
| 1993 | 111 | #1,046 | 56.6 |
| 1992 | 123 | #972 | 61.6 |
| 1991 | 119 | #978 | 58.9 |
| 1990 | 62 | #1,417 | 30.2 |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,291 | 35.5 |
| 1988 | 45 | #1,590 | 23.5 |
| 1987 | 38 | #1,738 | 20.4 |
| 1986 | 24 | #2,309 | 13.0 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,130 | 14.1 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,631 | 10.0 |
| 1983 | 27 | #1,969 | 15.1 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,872 | 8.8 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,073 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,596 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 7 | #4,964 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,450 | 6.7 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,240 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,781 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,944 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,401 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,503 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,140 | 3.1 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,932 | 3.8 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,306 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dejon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,683 Americans recorded as Dejon, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 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 Dejon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dejon, and how old are they?
2,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,683 Americans ever recorded as Dejon. The median Dejon alive today is 28 years old; half are between 20 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,936 people named Dejon (129 women and girls, 1,807 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,512 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 92 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 310 |
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 Dejon born?
The states with the most babies named Dejon are California, New York and Illinois, with 68% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 577 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New York | 117 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 111 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 64 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 62 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 53 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 47 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 44 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 27 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Dejon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dejon is most over-represented in California: since 1966 it was given 1.6 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 Dejon 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 9,753 babies since 1880, Dejon is the second most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 54 babies (31%), 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 Dejon
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 Dejon and names like it
- Compare Dejon and DejuanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDejon peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dejon since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Dejon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dejon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.