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Deane

boys’ name · 68%girls’ name · 32%RisingCompare

Deane is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 812th, in 1934.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
50.00% of boys
Peak year
194769 births
Best rank
#812in 1934
Since 1912
4,056people given the name
Babies named Deane, by year of birthboysgirls
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The story in the numbers

2,752 boys have been named Deane in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 69 births.

It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1944, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 17 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Deane is used for both sexes: 32% of its bearers are girls (1,304), most of them born around 1951.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Deane
1910s189
1920s522
1930s482
1940s425
1950s388
1960s310
1970s183
1980s85
1990s93
2000s13
2010s39
2020s23

In 1947, its biggest year

Deane was the 836th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1947 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1947.

Names that rose and fell with Deane

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.