Deacon comes from the Greek diakonos and means "servant" or "messenger"; it is the title of an office in the Christian church and also an English surname. It joined the wave of occupational and title names for boys in the 2000s, with the son of actress Reese Witherspoon among its bearers. In the United States Deacon entered the top 1000 in 2004, peaked at number 420 in 2014 and stands at number 561 among boys' names in 2025.