DEAN  

Gender: M
Origin: English
Meaning: "church official"

Popularity in 2008: #345

Surfer boy, now beached out. Diane Keaton used it as her daughter's middle name.

Nicknames & Variations:
Dino, Dene, Deyn, Deane, Deen

Dean is being discussed in our message boards:

• Drop two, add one (boys)
• Laundry Fantasy Name Game
• Very long name game! 10 kids!
• Orphanage Game
• Build a sibling set together!

Read Nameberry blog posts about Dean:

• BABY NAMES FROM BOOKS: 20 Lost Literary Girls' Names
• HEY, JUDE: Names from the Beatles and beyond
• NAMES RESCUED FROM THE TITANIC
• DAD NAMES: NOTEWORTHY NAMES OF SOME FAMOUS FATHERS
• RED CARPET NAMES: BOYS' EDITION