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Deyon vs Deysi

American parents have registered 1,714 Deysis since 1880, against 549 Deyons. Deysi is still ahead, with 38 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Deyon against Deysi, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Deyon Deysi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 51 years in which either name was published, Deysi for 42 years and Deyon for 9 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Deyon Deysi
Total US births 5491,714
Most in one year 2585
Babies in 2025 under 538
Estimated living today 5301,700
Median age today 2220
Peak year 19962005
Best rank 2,911th boys2,160th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked3,832nd
First recorded 19691983
Girls / boys 11 / 5381,714 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Deyons alive today are over 22; half the Deysis are over 20. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Deyon and Deysi.