Dean

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Origin: English

Meaning

Dean is an English masculine given name and middle name with several origins: Derived from the Greek word "δεκανός", which means "monk or dignitary in charge of ten others"; see also Dean Derived from the English surname Dean, from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning "valley" An Anglicization of the Hebrew noun דין, meaning "law", "justice" or "verdict".

From Wikipedia

Dean first appears in the data in 1991 and has been recorded in 34 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 1992 with 188 babies (rank #178 that year). In 2024 it was given to 117 boys (rank #281). Its popularity has been fairly steady recently.

Numerology of Dean

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Dean yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.

3,747
Total babies (all years)
34
Years in the data
188
Peak in a single year

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
1991159#204
1992188#178
1993150#202
1994114#232
1995110#261
1996130#227
1997107#257
199891#280
199978#312
200070#337
200178#312
200265#350
200362#371
200467#356
200562#392
200669#384
200793#315
2008113#275
200998#319
2010103#300
2011107#293
2012108#299
2013113#293
2014103#324
2015143#245
2016126#281
2017122#289
2018137#256
2019115#289
2020140#242
2021150#234
2022127#258
2023132#240
2024117#281