Deacon

At the 2020 census, 3,324 Americans bore the surname Deacon — 9,388th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 89,900.

By the numbers

People: 3,324
Rank: 9,388th
How common: 1 in 89,900
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

English occupational surname for someone working in the household of a deacon.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Deacon described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 83.5%
Black, not Hispanic 5.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Deacon

John Deacon (born 1951)British musician, bassist and songwriter
Richard Deacon (1921–1984)American actor
Amos Deacon (1904–1982)field hockey player
Maxwell Deacon (1910–1970)Canadian ice hockey player

People named Deacon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Deacon

Also a first name

Deacon has been given to 11,570 American babies as a first name since 1971, peaking in 2014. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.