Dejuan
Masculine · “God is gracious”
Dejuan is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 5,520 boys against 40 girls since 1880.
Dejuan joins the De- prefix of American naming to Juan, the Spanish form of John — which is one of the most-used names in the history of the world.
How old is the name Dejuan?
Dejuan first appears in US birth records in 1955 — 70 years ago. The typical Dejuan alive today was born around 1992, making them about 33 years old. About 5,300 people named Dejuan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dejuan most popular?
Dejuan peaked in 1985, reaching #718 nationally. Today it ranks #3848, 3,130 places below that high. See the whole 1985 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Dejuan
Ours, offered as ours. The De- prefix appeared in American naming in the middle of the twentieth century and became one of the most productive elements the language has: DeShawn, DeAndre, DeMarcus, Dejuan. It works like a particle rather than a word, marking a name as belonging to a tradition rather than adding a sense. Under it here sits Yohanan, a Hebrew sentence that has traveled through more languages than almost any other name.
Meaningscholars disagree
God is gracious
Juan is documented: the Spanish form of Hebrew Yohanan, God is gracious. The De- prefix belongs to African-American naming of the twentieth century and carries no meaning of its own, though it echoes the French and Spanish particle meaning of.
Pronouncing Dejuan
duh-WAHN
Two syllables with the stress on the second. Some families say DEE-juan.
Nicknames for Dejuan
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
- 1955
- Most boys named
- 1990165 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #718reached in 1985
- Change vs 2024
- −15.2%28 in 2025, from 33
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.
Dejuan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Juan in Spanish — related form
- John in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Michigan, Texas, Tennessee.
Dejuans among us
people named Dejuan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 61,003 born in 2025 was named Dejuan
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 Daryn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Dejuan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Daryn climbed just as high around 1965, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Daryn's path sketches the road Dejuan is walking now.
Dejuan 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
Where Dejuan is headed
Dejuan should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Dejuan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Dejuan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Juan is a complete short form and one of the great names of Europe.
- DJ and Dee are both plain, permanent short forms.
- It belongs to a documented American naming tradition rather than standing alone.
- Dejuan, DeJuan and Dujuan are all in use and the capitalization varies.
- The stress is unsettled between the first and second syllables.
- It is strongly associated with one American decade.
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Frequently asked
- How many Dejuans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,300 people named Dejuan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Dejuan in 2025?
- Dejuan ranks #3848 among US boy names in 2025, with 28 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Dejuan?
- About 1 in every 61,003 US boys born in 2025 was named Dejuan — 28 in all.
- Will my child share the name Dejuan with classmates?
- Dejuan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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