Dejour — #8549 US boys' name
300 babies named Dejour in U.S. Social Security records since 1990, with the highest year being 1997. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 40% of names given to boys today.
44% of everyone ever named Dejour was born in this single decade.
31 babies were named Dejour in 1997 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Dejour
The Social Security Administration has registered 300 babies named Dejour between 1990 and 2024, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dejour currently holds the #8549 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 31 babies received it in a single year. Dejour is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 19 additional births since 1997.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Dejour performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 133 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Dejour shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Dejour in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Dejour 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 300 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.
Dejour at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Dejour popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1990
- Peak year (1997)
- 31
- Annual births at peak — across 35 years of records
Currently ranks #8549 among boys.
300 total births across 35 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1997 with 31 births in a single year.
Dejour popularity over time — girls
19 total births recorded since 1997 (Dejour as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Dejour accounts for 6% of total recorded use across both genders.
Dejour by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 133 births that decade — 44% of Dejour's all-time total
Dejour decade highlights
- Peak decade 133 births
- Runner-up 85 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Dejour's strongest decade
133 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 44% of all-time use.
Dejour by state
Where Dejour concentrates geographically — total births since 1990
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Pennsylvania | | 5 | 1.7% |
5 of 300 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Pennsylvania 1.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Pennsylvania accounts for 1.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1990–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.