# Deon (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/deon/  
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 | 16,988 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 15,318 / 1,670 (10% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 709, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 15 | 6,037 |
| 1994 | 15 | 6,068 |
| 1995 | 10 | 8,249 |
| 1996 | 9 | 8,999 |
| 1997 | 16 | 5,951 |
| 1998 | 12 | 7,675 |
| 1999 | 13 | 7,355 |
| 2000 | 5 | 15,691 |
| 2002 | 9 | 10,451 |
| 2003 | 11 | 9,206 |
| 2004 | 10 | 10,110 |
| 2006 | 6 | 15,640 |
| 2009 | 6 | 15,750 |
| 2019 | 7 | 12,786 |
| 2023 | 5 | 15,792 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 200 | 982 |
| 2012 | 201 | 989 |
| 2013 | 215 | 936 |
| 2014 | 198 | 1,024 |
| 2015 | 199 | 1,020 |
| 2016 | 185 | 1,065 |
| 2017 | 161 | 1,165 |
| 2018 | 178 | 1,102 |
| 2019 | 163 | 1,182 |
| 2020 | 152 | 1,233 |
| 2021 | 177 | 1,140 |
| 2022 | 160 | 1,229 |
| 2023 | 143 | 1,329 |
| 2024 | 148 | 1,314 |
| 2025 | 133 | 1,383 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 8 | 1,914 |
| 1998 | 3 | 3,848 |
| 2001 | 5 | 2,783 |
| 2005 | 4 | 3,970 |
| 2009 | 4 | 4,564 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 21 | 1,209 |
| 2012 | 22 | 1,191 |
| 2013 | 18 | 1,339 |
| 2014 | 22 | 1,178 |
| 2015 | 19 | 1,327 |
| 2016 | 21 | 1,271 |
| 2017 | 14 | 1,703 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2,259 |
| 2019 | 26 | 1,056 |
| 2020 | 43 | 745 |
| 2021 | 27 | 1,055 |
| 2022 | 24 | 1,143 |
| 2023 | 27 | 1,071 |
| 2024 | 34 | 924 |
| 2025 | 18 | 1,466 |

## People named Deon

- Deon Burton, association football player (born 1976)
- Deon McCaulay, Belizean footballer
- Deon Richmond, American actor
- Deon Thompson, American basketball player
- Deon Cole, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
- Deon Thomas, American basketball player
- Deon Minor, American sprinter
- Deon Taylor, American film director
- Deon Jackson, American singer-songwriter
- Tyrone Mings, English association football 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.