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Deakon vs Deandre

American parents have registered 29,947 Deandres since 1880, against 493 Deakons. Deandre is still ahead, with 175 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Deakon against Deandre, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Deakon Deandre

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Deandre has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1958 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Deakon had 20 and Deandre had 210.

Side by side

  Deakon Deandre
Total US births 49329,947
Most in one year 301,163
Babies in 2025 15175
Estimated living today 49029,000
Median age today 1228
Peak year 20131994
Best rank 3,497th boys251st boys
Rank in 2025 5,861st1,176th
First recorded 20011958
Girls / boys 0 / 493452 / 29,495

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Deandres alive today are over 28; half the Deakons are over 12. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Deakon Deandre
England and Wales 66184

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Deakon and Deandre.