About the name Deegan
Deegan belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Deegan first appears in Social Security records in 1997. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #835 in 2011, and in 2024 100 babies received the name — 3,379 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.