How Many People Are Named Deion?

6,023

people named Deion are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 56,746 people in the US has this name

Based on 6,166 babies named Deion in Social Security records from 1955 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,318

πŸ’ŽπŸ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,267

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Peak Year

1996

582 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: African American (Modern)
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Variant of DION. A notable bearer is retired American football player Deion Sanders (1967-).

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
2.0%
Male
98.0%

Of the babies given the name Deion, 2% were girls and 98% were boys.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Deion alive today is about 22 years old, and 72% are under 30. Half of them were between 13 and 30 in 2025.

Under 30 4,351
72.2%
30 to 59 1,633
27.1%
60 and over 39
0.6%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Deion first appears in the records in 1955 and was given most often in 1996, to 582 babies. In 2025, 93 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1955 to 2025

πŸ† Rank History

Deion has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #411, in 1995 to 1996. In 2025 it ranked #1,744.

Boys
Rank in 2025#1,744
Best rank#411 (1995 to 1996)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#641 in the 1990s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Deion alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Deion were born in Texas than in any other state: about 557 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Deion was given 3.3 times as often in Georgia, 2.7 times in Florida and 1.9 times in Louisiana.

Texas 557
Florida 551
California 433
Georgia 392
New York 266
Pennsylvania 163
Ohio 154
Tennessee 112
Louisiana 109
Virginia 107
Illinois 104
North Carolina 99
South Carolina 86
Missouri 81
Maryland 72
Michigan 70
Alabama 69
New Jersey 62
Arizona 60
Indiana 56
Mississippi 41
Wisconsin 40
New Mexico 35
Washington 25
Minnesota 23
Colorado 22
Arkansas 18
Kentucky 15
District of Columbia 13
Hawaii 13
Connecticut 11
Massachusetts 10
Oklahoma 8
West Virginia 6
Utah 5

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