Deon

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled เดือน in TH Thailand, Deuan in ES Spain, Dean in PH Philippines and Duan in CN China.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Deon is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name25K records spelled Deon8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, South Africa, Philippines

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian

  Also written D'Eon, Deón, Déon, Deòn

• a separate given name7.9K records spelled Deon4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, South Africa

  Also written D'Eon, Déon, D'Éon

• French given name5.2K records spelled Deon8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, South Africa, Canada

  Also written Déon, D'Eon, D’Eon, D'Éon, Dèon

• Swahili given name4.2K records spelled Deon6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in South Africa, United States, Kenya, United Kingdom

  Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

  Also written Deón, Déon

• Albanian given name3.7K records spelled Deon2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Albania, United States, United Kingdom

  Also written Déon

• English (South Africa) given name2.8K records spelled Deon2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands

  Also written Déon

• Arabic given name1.1K records spelled Deon4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

  Also written D'Eon, Déon

• Italian given name530 records spelled Deon2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, South Africa, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Déon

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Deon is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In ang, to suck

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 111 years between 1913–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Deon Meyerb. 1958ZASouth African crime and thriller author
• Deon van der Waltb. 1958ZANotable South African opera tenor (1958–2005)
• Deon Hemmingsb. 1968JMJamaïcan 400 metres hurdler
• Deon Coleb. 1972USAmerican comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• Deon Taylorb. 1976USAmerican film director
• Deon Richmondb. 1978USAmerican actor
• Deon McCaulayb. 1987BZBelizean footballer
• Deon Thompsonb. 1988USAmerican basketball player
• Deon Lendoreb. 1992TTTrinidad and Tobago sprinter
• Tyrone Mingsb. 1993GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 480 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Deon?

We estimate roughly 139 thousand people bear Deon (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Deon have the most bearers?

We estimate about 131 thousand people bear Deon in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled deon.

Where is Deon most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Deon is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Deon compared with other names?

In Guyana, Deon is the 29th most common given name of 22,162 given names recorded there.

Is Deon a male or female name?

Deon is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Deon mean?

Recorded meaning: de Deo com desinência truncada -on