Deron R. Hicks: Hi, my name is Deron Hicks. It is not a family name. Deron Johnson was a first baseman for the Atlanta Braves who happened to be playing at the time that I was born, and my mother was listening to the radio and decided that she liked the name. Now, the problem is Deron is spelled D-E-R-O-N, which no one in the world pronounces as Deron, but that is the commonly understood way that we pronounce it in the Hicks household.