# Deacon name report

Canonical URL: https://mybabyeta.com/babynames/name/m/deacon
Data source: U.S. Social Security Administration public baby-name records
Latest year: 2025

## Summary
Deacon ranked #561 officially for boys in 2025. After combined spelling groups, it ranked #564.

## Official spelling
- Rank: #561
- Birth count: 529
- Rate per 10,000: 3.10

## Combined spelling group
- Group display: Deacon
- Rank: #564
- Birth count: 529
- Rate per 10,000: 3.10
- Official count multiplier: 1.00x

## Practical popularity
- Expected per class of 25: 0.00
- Expected per grade of 100: 0.02
- Expected per school of 300: 0.05
- Duplicate chance in grade of 100: 1.6%

## Trend
- Label: stable
- Peak rate year: 2014
- Best rank year: 2014
- Latest rate as percent of peak: 81.0%

## Spelling components
- Deacon: 529 births

## Methodology notes
- Official SSA ranks treat each spelling separately.
- Combined ranks group spelling variants and recompute ranks by sex.
- State combined counts may be lower bounds when rare state spellings are suppressed.
- Full methodology: https://mybabyeta.com/babynames/methodology