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Deion vs Deiondre

American parents have registered 6,166 Deions since 1880, against 433 Deiondres. Deion is still ahead, with 93 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Deion against Deiondre, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Deion Deiondre

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

Deion has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1955 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Deion had 106 and Deiondre had 26.

Side by side

  Deion Deiondre
Total US births 6,166433
Most in one year 58248
Babies in 2025 93under 5
Estimated living today 6,000420
Median age today 2523
Peak year 19961996
Best rank 410th boys1,872nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,743rdunranked
First recorded 19551993
Girls / boys 123 / 6,0430 / 433

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 Deions alive today are over 25; half the Deiondres are over 23. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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