Deaken
#9,103 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Deaken has been given to 177 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #9,103 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Deaken, 2025
1 in 414,000
Deaken over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Deaken?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,103
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Deaken sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deaken. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Deakens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Deaken was born before 2012 — so the typical Deaken is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 43.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 177
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (77).
Is Deaken rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −181
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,486
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.80×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 47.1%
- Peak was 2013 (17)
- Years since peak
- 12
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.4% average annual change
Spellings of Deaken
Deaken is not the most common spelling — Dean is, with 66.5% against Deaken's 0.06%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Deaken around the world
Where Deaken ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2006–2011#4,647in 2011
- Canada2008–2008#2,611in 2008
- South Australia2005–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Deaken by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Deaken
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Deaken
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.