Dequan
Dequan was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,300 among boys’ names; 3,855 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,740 Americans named Dequan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 23 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dequan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dequan?
#7,300 among boys’ names, 2025
Dequan fell from #2,612 in 2015 to #7,300 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 24.5 to 6.4 per million.
377 babies in 1994, the peak
Dequan peaked in 1994, when 377 boys were given it, #521 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,300 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 15 | #5,976 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,486 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 29 | #3,790 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,522 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 34 | #3,286 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 41 | #2,953 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,116 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,633 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 41 | #2,897 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #2,612 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 45 | #2,672 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 33 | #3,278 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 41 | #2,874 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 53 | #2,383 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 37 | #3,086 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 52 | #2,461 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 51 | #2,478 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,170 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 56 | #2,255 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 67 | #1,890 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 67 | #1,837 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 90 | #1,454 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 99 | #1,331 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 128 | #1,108 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 145 | #1,007 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 195 | #786 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 205 | #769 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 183 | #799 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 239 | #682 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 248 | #664 | 0.13 |
| 1994 | 377 | #521 | 0.20 |
| 1993 | 241 | #663 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 146 | #870 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 116 | #989 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 100 | #1,057 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,292 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 44 | #1,618 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 40 | #1,687 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 29 | #2,015 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 28 | #2,028 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,726 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 25 | #2,103 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,619 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 21 | #2,362 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 25 | #2,128 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 23 | #2,176 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 87 | #928 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,266 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,789 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,041 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dequan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dequan has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 51 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dequan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dequan, and how old are they?
3,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,855 Americans ever recorded as Dequan. The median Dequan alive today is 29 years old; half are between 23 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 2,779 people named Dequan (28 women and girls, 2,751 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,650 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 | 147 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 396 |
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 Dequan born?
The states with the most babies named Dequan are Michigan, New York and Florida, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 309 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| New York | 275 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 269 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 207 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Virginia | 193 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Georgia | 168 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| South Carolina | 152 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Illinois | 149 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 106 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 90 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Dequan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dequan is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1975 it was given 2.9 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 Dequan 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,099 babies since 1880, Dequan is the most given (94% of them).
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 Dequan
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 Dequan and names like it
- Compare Dequan and DequonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDequan peaked in 1994.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dequan since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Dequan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dequan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.