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Deacon

Rank in 2024
#549
Born in 2024
539
Peak year
2014 · #420
Origin
English

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 539 boys were named Deacon, about 1 in every 3,182.
  • It peaked in 2014 with 734 babies, ranked #420.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1971.
  • 11,038 boys have been named Deacon since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Deacon per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. 0
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.1
    Gen Z
  7. 0.3
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 117 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 145 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,467 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 7,309 babies, 0.34 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

English occupational surname for someone working in the household of a deacon. Also as an English surname, variant of Dicken. As an Irish surname, from Ó Deocáin, "descendant of Deocán."

  • (rare) A male given name from English.
Origin
English
Say it
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0.