The name Deacon comes from the word ‘deacon’, which refers to a cleric in the Christian church. It is derived from the Greek ‘diakonos’ meaning ‘servant’ or ‘messenger’. Deacon is also common as an occupational surname.
Deacon is a male first name.
The name Deacon isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Deacon ranks 463. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Deacon. In the entire USA, approximately 8,662 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Deacon. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
The name Deacon comes from the word ‘deacon’, which refers to a cleric in the Christian church. It is derived from the Greek ‘diakonos’ meaning ‘servant’ or ‘messenger’. Deacon is also common as an occupational surname.
What is an occupational surname? This is a type of last name that indicates a person's profession or trade. It was commonly used in medieval Europe and was often given to individuals based on the job they held in their community.
Deacon is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Deacon cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #405 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2014. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Deacon, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Deacon seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Deacon was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
570 babies were named Deacon in 2022 - that's 1 in 283,204 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Deacon ranked 495 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.
With six letters, the name Deacon is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.
If your name is Deacon and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Deacon, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Elephant
Apple
Cat
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Deacon
Deacon
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
E
A
C
O
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
E
A
C
O
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Deacon sounds like this:
