Desean

Last seen for girls in 1996 at #11,807 · #4,396 for boys in 2025, 23 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time

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Peak · boys
1991 · 125 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
4,031
since 1968

Desean over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Desean has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201968peak #954, 1991boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#4,39623
2024—#4,70121
2023—#3,88328
2022—#3,05340
2021—#3,02140
2020—#2,54650
2019—#2,85143
2018—#2,79643
2017—#2,29557
2016—#2,41253
2015—#1,85379
2014—#1,60897
2013—#1,64792
2012—#1,398119
2011—#1,149157
2010—#1,168157
2009—#1,331130
2008—#1,428117
2007—#1,457110
2006—#1,460105
2005—#1,362110
2004—#1,335110
2003—#1,37298
2002—#1,305102
2001—#1,137122
2000—#1,260104
1999—#1,212105
1998—#1,127113
1997—#1,125112
1996#11,8076#1,071113
1995—#999123
1994—#981127
1993—#1,033114
1992—#1,043110
1991—#954125
1990—#1,08397
1989—#1,22876
1988—#1,14577
1987—#1,53446
1986#10,9125#1,15367
1985—#1,35451
1984—#1,65635
1983—#1,65135
1982—#2,59618
1981—#2,08625
1980—#2,05826
1979—#2,23622
1978—#2,27920
1977—#1,85827
1976—#2,17721
1975—#1,94824
1974—#1,98322
1973—#2,31117
1972—#1,96621
1971—#2,12619
1970—#2,12518
1969—#2,41513
1968—#4,1365
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First appearance
1968

The first year at least five boys were named Desean! It came in at #4,136, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1968, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Desean is popular in 1968

No state had 5 or more boys named Desean in 1968, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Desean
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 305 spots since 2024 (#4,701 → #4,396)
  • 1,850 spots since 2020 (#2,546 → #4,396)
  • 2,543 spots since 2015 (#1,853 → #4,396)
  • Biggest jump: 129 spots in 1991 (#1,083 → #954)
  • Biggest drop: 89 spots in 1992 (#954 → #1,043)
Rise & fade · boys
23 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1968
  • Peaked 1991 at #954 (125 births)
  • Births halved by 2016, 25 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1994–1995
Share of babies · boys
1 in 12,097
  • Highest: 1 in 12,097 boys born in 2011 were named Desean (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 74,264 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #954 in 1991, was only 1 in 16,163 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 28.3% of all boys named Desean (1,139) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s18#2,415 (1969)#3,276
1970s211#1,858 (1977)#2,101
1980s456#1,145 (1988)#1,646
1990s1,139#954 (1991)#1,063
2000s1,108#1,137 (2001)#1,345
2010s897#1,149 (2011)#1,918
2020s202#2,546 (2020)#3,600

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Desean in 1968

boys
#4,136
5 births · 1 in 347,595 boys

Top boys' names in 1968

  1. #1Michael81,968
  2. #2David63,679
  3. #3John60,903
  4. #4James60,665
  5. #5Robert58,174
  6. #6William36,927
  7. #7Mark35,401
  8. #8Richard32,976
  9. #9Christopher31,468
  10. #10Brian29,922
  11. #4,136Desean5
More about 1968

boys

1,737,974 boys got a published name in 1968; 1 in 347,595 of them was named Desean, which outranked 12.9% of the 4,746 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Desean
  1. #3,673Yvan6
  2. #3,673Zeno6
  3. #3,673Zollie6
  4. #4,136Desean5
  5. #4,136Abrahan5
  6. #4,136Achille5
  7. #4,136Achilles5

Tied with 610 names at #4,136; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1967
Risers
  1. ↑ 649Dustin#1,018 → #369
  2. ↑ 567Damion#1,411 → #844
  3. ↑ 490Korey#1,388 → #898
  4. ↑ 434Darby#1,364 → #930
  5. ↑ 393Jamal#1,181 → #788
Fallers
  1. ↓ 926Illya#968 → #1,894
  2. ↓ 357Maury#925 → #1,282
  3. ↓ 298Cedrick#885 → #1,183
  4. ↓ 290Dell#875 → #1,165
  5. ↓ 257Faron#843 → #1,100

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1968 →