How rare is the name Dejuan?

3,831 people in the United States have the first name Dejuan, about 1 in 78,839. It ranks #4,744 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 2 others.

first name

DEJUAN

#4,744

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
3,831
About
1 in 78,839
This common or more
84.5%
Who bears it

Of the 3,831 people named Dejuan, 88.9% reported their origin as Black, 4% as two or more races and 3.8% as Hispanic or Latino. 96.9% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Dejuan peaked in 1990, when 165 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19552025
Peak year
1990
Births that year
165
In 2025*
28 ▼83%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 5,560 babies have been given the name since 1955. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Dejuan by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,837. The largest share of babies named Dejuan, 39.2%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1950s#13,5468
1960s#5,603129
1970s#2,170831
1980s#1,8371,337
1990s#2,1621,401
2000s#3,2021,059
2010s#5,112576
2020s#6,954219
Baby boom 1946–640.8%
Generation X 1965–8018.7%
Millennials 1981–9639.2%
Generation Z 1997–1230.6%
2013 and later10.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Dejuan is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Dejuan has been most common in Michigan (5.8×), Indiana (2.8×), and Illinois (2.5×), and least common in New York (0.12×).

3,362 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Dejuan

2 other first names also have 3,831 people.

#4,744 Jeramy · 3,831#4,744 Malcom · 3,831

Either side of Dejuan

#4,740 Iona · 3,833#4,740 Manal · 3,833#4,744 Jeramy · 3,831#4,744 Malcom · 3,831

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Dejuan, most common first.

#5,933 Dequan · 2,779#10,118 Dejan · 1,333#31,104 Dejuana · 277#33,205 Dejean · 250#42,229 Dejun · 171

Also a last name

As a last name, Dejuan ranks #118,445 of 156,621, with 155 people. See Dejuan as a last name

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