The name Declan is of Irish origin, and its meaning is unknown.
The table below indicates the number of times the name Declan 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 Declan
Use of the Name Declan for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years
50 Years
25 Years
10 Years
5 Years
2 Years
1 Year
3,263
3,263
3,263
3,263
2,678
1,199
593
The table below indicates the number of times the name Declan has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004.
Declan first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1998, which is the first year shown on the table.
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 Declan
Used as a Boy Name
Used as a Girl Name
Year
Rank
Count
Rank
Count
1998
711
234
1999
569
351
2000
544
388
2001
452
529
2002
438
562
2003
421
606
2004
433
593
Totals:
3,263
0
During the last 125 years, parents have used Declan as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and almost never as a girl's name.
Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are significantly lower than actual counts because the name Declan appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 7 times during the last 125 years.