Dean
Dean stands at #125 nationally in 2025, and more parents pick it every year. Its record runs from 1880 through a 1961 peak, 192,930 children in all.
Dean’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Dean, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Dean since 1880
Dean peaked in 1961 at #84; #125 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Dean is most common
Among the states, Dean takes its largest share in South Dakota, 0.65% of the boys' names recorded there in 2025, with New Hampshire and Montana next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Dean
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Diana
#244 in 2025 · Latin
Mark
#245 in 2025 · Latin
David
#35 in 2025 · Hebrew
John
#23 in 2025 · Hebrew
Valerie
#127 in 2025 · Latin
Melanie
#142 in 2025 · Greek
Vincent
#107 in 2025 · Latin
Robert
#92 in 2025 · Teutonic
Browse: names starting with D · all names
About Dean
How common is Dean today?
Dean stands at #125 nationally in 2025, and more parents pick it every year. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
Does Dean have a meaning on record?
The public-domain references we cite do not record a meaning for Dean, so this page does not invent one.
Which names sit near Dean?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Diana sits closest, with Mark and David just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
Get Dean’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
Make the kitThe book is in the works
A printed picture book where Dean earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
Preview the book