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How popular is “Deacon” in the USA?

Number of people named “Deacon” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Deacon” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Deacon” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Deacon” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Deacon” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Deacon” by birth year

This chart shows how “Deacon” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1971 15 0.00000437 15 -100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 -100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 -100%
1974 12 0.000003947 12 -100%
1975 14 0.000004637 14 -100%
1976 16 0.000005273 16 -100%
1977 10 0.000003148 10 -100%
1978 15 0.000004726 15 -100%
1979 11 0.000003306 11 -100%
1980 10 0.000002903 10 -100%
1981 14 0.000004047 14 -100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 -100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 -100%
1984 11 0.000003153 11 -100%
1985 10 0.000002802 10 -100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 -100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 -100%
1991 10 0.000002567 10 -100%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 -100%
1993 11 0.000002918 11 -100%
1994 11 0.000002959 11 -100%
1995 10 0.000002731 10 -100%
1996 15 0.000004113 15 -100%
1997 15 0.000004137 15 -100%
1998 13 0.000003534 13 -100%
1999 46 0.000012453 46 -100%
2000 74 0.000019577 74 -100%
2001 126 0.000033659 126 -100%
2002 142 0.000037985 142 -100%
2003 127 0.000033401 127 -100%
2004 192 0.00005025 192 -100%
2005 240 0.000062421 240 -100%
2006 325 0.00008215 325 -100%
2007 386 0.000096556 386 -100%
2008 380 0.000096676 380 -100%
2009 353 0.000092404 353 -100%
2010 336 0.000090916 336 -100%
2011 358 0.000097873 358 -100%
2012 354 0.000096791 354 -100%
2013 656 0.00017994 656 -100%
2014 734 0.000198037 734 -100%
2015 669 0.000180766 669 -100%
2016 651 0.000177447 651 -100%
2017 581 0.000162463 581 -100%
2018 604 0.000171791 604 -100%
2019 562 0.000161916 562 -100%
2020 555 0.000166139 555 -100%
2021 630 0.000185953 630 -100%
2022 573 0.00016937 573 -100%
2023 555 0.000167613 555 -100%
2024 539 0.000161935 539 -100%

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