Dejean Surname: Origin, Meaning & Coat of Arms

In Wikidata, Dejean is listed as a French surname. 1,978 Americans were listed as Dejean in the 2010 census. INSEE counts 8,372 people born in France with the Dejean surname between 1891 and 2000; the busiest decade was 1951–1960. Births ran at 520 in 1891–1900 and 666 in 1991–2000. The meaning of Dejean is not given in the reference works we use for these short pages; a full report traces it from your own family's records.

Official name counts are where our Dejean file begins.

There is no single Dejean family crest for all bearers; the honest first step is to find out which Dejean line, if any, bore arms. Want more than a summary? See the Dejean family name pack.