Dewon
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dewon has been given to 411 babies in the U.S. since 1970. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1986, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Dewon, 2022
1 in 677,000
Dewon 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Dewon?
Dewon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 677,000
- 5 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 349,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dewon sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dewon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dewons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dewon was born before 1990 — so the typical Dewon is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 29.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 30.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 411
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (121).
Is Dewon 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1986 (19)
- Years since peak
- 39
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.5% average annual change
Spellings of Dewon
Dewon is not the most common spelling — Dean is, with 16.3% against Dewon's 0.03%.
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.
Dewon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Dewon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dewon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.