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 1966 and has been recorded in 47 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 2011 with 440 babies (rank #25 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

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.

3,423
Total babies (all years)
47
Years in the data
440
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
19663#838
19673#860
19681#1,087
19691#1,049
19701#1,045
19721#1,024
19731#1,047
19753#932
19763#926
19773#910
19782#1,022
19792#1,034
19801#1,193
19811#1,203
19821#1,225
19833#968
19843#986
19855#835
198610#671
19876#804
198810#687
198915#586
19906#845
199119#561
199227#474
199346#333
199435#399
199545#336
199645#352
199760#283
199847#349
199963#283
200041#374
200149#337
200258#303
200363#280
2004152#127
2005171#111
2006163#106
2007187#89
2008254#64
2009230#73
2010347#39
2011440#25
2012297#46
2013250#56
2014249#55