Deacon
40
Babies in 2024
-65%
10-year change
2014
Peak · 115
-7%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Deacon
Deacon has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 40 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 65% on a decade earlier.
Deacon reached its peak in 2014, when 115 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #364 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 35% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,742 boys have been officially registered with the name Deacon in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 700 boys were registered with the name, starting from 115 in 2014 and ending at 40 in 2024.