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 "ฮดฮตฮบฮฑฮฝฯŒฯ‚", 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 ื“ื™ืŸ, 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 โ€” 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

Popularity Over Time โ€” Boys

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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