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Deklin

Boy · DEK-lan · Irish

Deklin is a boys' name of Irish origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,606th for boys in the US (16 babies).

What does Deklin mean?

Irish: spelling of Deklan, itself a spelling of Declan, from Irish Déaglán

Saint Declan was an early Irish missionary bishop who founded the monastery at Ardmore, County Waterford.

Say it
DEK-lan

Meaning borrowed from Deklan.

Is Deklin a girl's or a boy's name?

Deklin is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Deklin in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,606among boys
Babies in 2025
16about 1 in 110,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 53% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 16 boys in the US were named Deklin, making it the 5,606th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,416th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 69 boys. It first appears in the records in 2000.

Half of all the boys named Deklin in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,746 boys in the US were given Deklin or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #148, up from #5,606 for this spelling alone.

2000Busiest: 69 in 20152025
Deklin in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202516#5,606
202411#7,252
202320#4,882
202218#5,211
202121#4,624
202032#3,416
201935#3,256
201833#3,369
201734#3,310
201642#2,837
201569#2,055
201447#2,580
201346#2,592
201239#2,952
201130#3,509
201013#6,353
200914#6,091
20088#9,013
200713#6,259
20067#9,579
20057#9,108
20047#8,921
20035#10,886
20028#7,636
200113#5,383
20007#8,202

Names like Deklin

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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