Dejour
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- deh-ZHOOR
- Origin
- French
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Dejour is a boys' name of French origin, meaning “of the day”. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Dejour mean?
French: from the French phrase de jour
“of the day”
Is Dejour a girl's or a boy's name?
Dejour is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Dejour in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,239among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Dejour, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,029th. Its busiest year was 1997, with 31 boys. It first appears in the records in 1990.
Half of all the boys named Dejour in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Dejour in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,815 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,629 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,029 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,638 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,613 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,241 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,703 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,455 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,633 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,514 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,251 |
| 2002 | 15 | #4,913 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,135 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,290 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,475 |
| 1998 | 27 | #2,923 |
| 1997 | 31 | #2,542 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,400 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,785 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,693 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,556 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 10 | #4,986 |
Names like Dejour
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Xander Sawyer Cooper Luca River Parker Walker Dawson Dior Nasir Axel Hunter
Names related to Dejour
More French names
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Dejour: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dejour, updated 20 October 2026.