DEACON  

Gender: M
Origin: Greek
Meaning: "messenger, servant"

Popularity in 2008: #642

This name was transposed from the word for a church officer to a baby name when Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe chose it for their son, after a baseball player ancestor, and Don Johnson followed suit.

Nicknames & Variations:
Deekon, Deecon, Deakin

Deacon is being discussed in our message boards:

• why is it so hard!?!?!
• Opinion/Ideas Needed!!
• Could these names be siblings or not?
• Middle name for Axel?
• Complete the set - please advise me!!!!

Read Nameberry blog posts about Deacon:

• SOAP OPERA NAMES
• NEW SURNAME NAMES FOR BOYS
• BABY NAME TRENDS: View from the Peak