Dejon
Masculine
Dejon is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 2,606 boys against 77 girls since 1880.
Dejon is De- joined to Jon, which is the shortest possible demonstration of how the American prefix system works: take a complete name, put a syllable in front, and you have a new one that everybody reads correctly on sight.
How old is the name Dejon?
Dejon first appears in US birth records in 1966 — 59 years ago. The typical Dejon alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 2,500 people named Dejon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dejon most popular?
Dejon peaked in 1992, reaching #974 nationally. Today it ranks #5399, 4,425 places below that high. See the whole 1992 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yôḥānān to Dejon
Our story of Dejon
There is a reason the prefix system chose the second elements it did. Look at what De- attaches to: Shawn, Andre, Marcus, Juan, Jon, Vaughn, Wayne. Every one of them is a single stressed syllable or a name whose stress falls at the front, which means the prefix can carry an unstressed beat without fighting the base name for emphasis. Names that resist the prefix — Nicholas, Christopher, Benjamin — all have their own internal rhythm already. Dejon is the pattern at its most economical: two syllables total, one of them borrowed from one of the oldest names in the world. Its peak in 1992 sits at the late end of the prefix era, and the spelling Dejuan, Dijon and Dejohn all appear alongside it.
Meaningscholars disagree
The Jon element means God is gracious
Jon is a short form of John, from Hebrew Yôḥānān, God is gracious — settled for John. The De- prefix is a productive American naming element with no documented meaning, attested from the 1960s in Deshawn, Demarcus, Deandre and hundreds more. Dejon as a whole has no translatable sense. The French place name Dijon is unrelated and is spelled differently.
How the name formed
- Yôḥānān
- John
- Jon
- Dejon
Related forms: יוֹחָנָן
Pronouncing Dejon
duh-JAHN
Two syllables, stress on the second. Some families say DEE-jon with the weight at the front and a fuller first vowel, and both are in use.
Nicknames for Dejon
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1966
- Most boys named
- 1992123 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #974reached in 1992
- Change vs 2024
- −22.7%17 in 2025, from 22
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Dejon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- יוֹחָנָן in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Dejons among us
people named Dejon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 100,475 born in 2025 was named Dejon
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Michial test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Dejon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Michial climbed just as high around 1950, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Michial's path sketches the road Dejon is walking now.
Dejon sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Dejon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Dejon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Jon is a complete and ancient name available as a short form.
- Two syllables and five letters keep it compact.
- Everyone can say it after one hearing.
- It is one letter from Dijon, the French city and the mustard.
- Dejon, Dejuan, Dijon and Dejohn are four spellings of nearly one sound.
- The De- prefix dates it closely to the last third of the twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Dejons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,500 people named Dejon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Dejon in 2025?
- Dejon ranks #5399 among US boy names in 2025, with 17 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Dejon?
- About 1 in every 100,475 US boys born in 2025 was named Dejon — 17 in all.
- Will my child share the name Dejon with classmates?
- Dejon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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