Deegan
#2,024 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Deegan has been given to 3,465 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #2,024 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 259 recorded.
Babies named Deegan, 2025
1 in 44,800
Deegan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Deegan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 44,800
- 74 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 23,100
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,024
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 31,054 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Deegan 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 31,054 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deegan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Deegans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Deegan was born before 2012 — so the typical Deegan is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 52.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,453
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 52.5% of all recorded uses (1,814).
Is Deegan 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
- −349
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −414
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −912
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.43×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 28.6%
- Peak was 2011 (259)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 14.0% average annual change
Spellings of Deegan
Deegan is not the most common spelling — Dean is, with 49.0% against Deegan's 0.88%.
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.
Where Deegan is used
Across 2016–2025, Deegan was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 6,250 boys, against 1 in 19,480 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arizona1 in 6,250
- 2Michigan1 in 7,692
- 3Indiana1 in 9,091
- 4Minnesota1 in 9,091
- 5Ohio1 in 9,091
- 6Utah1 in 10,000
- 7Pennsylvania1 in 11,111
- 8California1 in 14,286
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Deegan around the world
Where Deegan 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 & Wales2001–2025#5,137in 2025
- Ireland2008–2008#698in 2008
- France2016–2016#5,744in 2016
- Canada2001–2024#2,855in 2024
- South Australia1987–2013#499in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Deegan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Deegan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Deegan
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Deegan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Deegan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.