Dean
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#125
up +17 places
2025 births
2,876
up +327 births
All-time births
192,930
1% of them in 2025
More common than
100%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1961
- 4,933 births
- Best rank
- #78
- in 1967
- First recorded
- 1880
- #488 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1969
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 19614,933#84Peak
- 19624,655#86
- 19634,616#86
- 19604,518#94
- 19644,510#85
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #78 in 1967 · peak births 4,933 in 1961
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
192,930 boys · 2,914 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Dean has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.