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The name Dean is of English origin, and means valley. The table below indicates the number of times the name Dean has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Dean**
Use of the Name Dean for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
156,243	95,956	19,700	7,453	3,562	1,416	734

The table below indicates the number of times the name Dean has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Dean**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	488	14	979	4
1881	401	18
1882	663	9
1883	535	12
1884	529	13	949	6
1885	585	11
1886	478	15
1887	643	9
1888	584	12
1889	390	21
1890	352	25
1891	334	26
1892	396	23
1893	482	15
1894	341	28
1895	441	20	942	12
1896	507	17
1897	284	41
1898	365	28
1899	365	25
1900	307	47
1901	314	32
1902	302	40
1903	371	27
1904	391	28
1905	311	42
1906	336	38
1907	341	40
1908	346	43	947	18
1909	354	44
1910	346	53
1911	270	93
1912	252	198
1913	252	224
1914	232	336
1915	225	454
1916	215	505
1917	203	559
1918	189	668
1919	181	720
1920	180	791
1921	169	873
1922	157	983
1923	152	1,015	993	57
1924	145	1,146
1925	140	1,194	990	57
1926	139	1,248
1927	133	1,330	891	70
1928	136	1,285	956	61
1929	132	1,286	850	70
1930	129	1,356	911	64
1931	127	1,341	934	55
1932	123	1,412	760	79
1933	128	1,309	860	61
1934	118	1,477	939	54
1935	120	1,435
1936	125	1,330	911	56
1937	127	1,313	984	51
1938	129	1,339
1939	134	1,295
1940	143	1,219
1941	143	1,293
1942	153	1,281
1943	142	1,502
1944	133	1,574
1945	139	1,573
1946	132	1,880
1947	140	1,989
1948	143	1,907
1949	129	2,102
1950	120	2,336
1951	105	2,883
1952	103	3,146
1953	105	3,106
1954	109	3,165
1955	111	3,080
1956	99	3,715
1957	93	4,366
1958	97	4,282
1959	95	4,433
1960	94	4,508
1961	84	4,924
1962	86	4,656
1963	86	4,612
1964	85	4,508
1965	88	4,091
1966	84	4,041
1967	78	3,915
1968	78	3,798
1969	89	3,448
1970	112	2,936
1971	137	2,240
1972	155	1,682
1973	168	1,411
1974	184	1,221
1975	210	1,024
1976	229	886
1977	239	868
1978	263	766
1979	250	845
1980	267	816
1981	279	740
1982	272	769
1983	277	746
1984	275	759
1985	266	800
1986	264	837
1987	264	819
1988	271	856
1989	276	892
1990	286	893
1991	314	819
1992	315	836
1993	317	834
1994	314	831
1995	333	766
1996	312	842
1997	326	802
1998	346	768
1999	365	713
2000	376	694
2001	355	741
2002	372	711
2003	381	682
2004	374	734
Totals:		156,243		775

During the last 125 years, parents have used Dean as a boy's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a girl's name.

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