Boy · #561 in 2025

Deacon

Deacon: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#561
Born 2025
529
Peak year
2014

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 boys born

Deacon per 100,000 boys born, by year. Peak: 2014. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Deacon has held steady: its share of boys born has barely moved over the last 10 years. It now stands at 82% of its 2014 peak.

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.