Given name & surname
Deyon
Deyon is a surname. It is used in English and Walloon.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Deyon isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1969. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Deyon through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 549
- 538 boys · 11 girls
- Most popular year
- 1996
- 25 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −33%
- Easing
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 25 in 1996. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 545 as a first name in 2020; a sample rank of No. 47,685 among surnames in 1990.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Deyon’s family of names
In Walloon usage, Deyon shares a linguistic root with the French form Gédéon. Deyon has a related form in Dion.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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