# Deion (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/deion/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,166 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6,043 / 123 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 49, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 6 | 7,275 |
| 1973 | 5 | 8,733 |
| 1993 | 5 | 14,043 |
| 1994 | 5 | 13,989 |
| 1995 | 12 | 7,175 |
| 1996 | 16 | 5,855 |
| 1997 | 9 | 9,218 |
| 1998 | 11 | 8,139 |
| 2000 | 5 | 15,662 |
| 2002 | 5 | 16,087 |
| 2004 | 5 | 16,782 |
| 2009 | 6 | 15,736 |
| 2010 | 5 | 17,688 |
| 2013 | 5 | 17,223 |
| 2014 | 5 | 17,227 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 126 | 1,344 |
| 2012 | 136 | 1,286 |
| 2013 | 115 | 1,434 |
| 2014 | 130 | 1,336 |
| 2015 | 123 | 1,397 |
| 2016 | 120 | 1,445 |
| 2017 | 112 | 1,499 |
| 2018 | 108 | 1,554 |
| 2019 | 95 | 1,682 |
| 2020 | 101 | 1,604 |
| 2021 | 117 | 1,514 |
| 2022 | 101 | 1,695 |
| 2023 | 104 | 1,654 |
| 2024 | 106 | 1,611 |
| 2025 | 93 | 1,744 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 | 1,765 |
| 1997 | 5 | 2,022 |
| 1998 | 3 | 2,901 |
| 1999 | 4 | 2,425 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3,849 |
| 2011 | 6 | 2,892 |
| 2014 | 4 | 3,895 |
| 2015 | 5 | 3,373 |
| 2017 | 10 | 2,172 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |

## People named Deion

- Deion Sanders, American football and baseball player and football coach
- Deion Branch, American football player
- Julius Randle, American basketball player (born 1994)
- Toni Pressley, American soccer player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.