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
- Peak · boys
- 1991 · 125 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,031since 1968
Desean over time
Rank among boys' names. Desean has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #4,396 | 23 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,701 | 21 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,883 | 28 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,053 | 40 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,021 | 40 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,546 | 50 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,851 | 43 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,796 | 43 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,295 | 57 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,412 | 53 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,853 | 79 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,608 | 97 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,647 | 92 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,398 | 119 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,149 | 157 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,168 | 157 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,331 | 130 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,428 | 117 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,457 | 110 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,460 | 105 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,362 | 110 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,335 | 110 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,372 | 98 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,305 | 102 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,137 | 122 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,260 | 104 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,212 | 105 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,127 | 113 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,125 | 112 | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #1,071 | 113 |
| 1995 | — | #999 | 123 | |
| 1994 | — | #981 | 127 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,033 | 114 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,043 | 110 | |
| 1991 | — | #954 | 125 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,083 | 97 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,228 | 76 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,145 | 77 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,534 | 46 | |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #1,153 | 67 |
| 1985 | — | #1,354 | 51 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,656 | 35 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,651 | 35 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,596 | 18 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,086 | 25 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,058 | 26 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,236 | 22 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,279 | 20 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,858 | 27 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,177 | 21 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,948 | 24 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,983 | 22 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,311 | 17 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,966 | 21 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,126 | 19 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,125 | 18 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,415 | 13 | |
| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
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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 1990
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#528 · 1 in 6,456
- Virginia#635 · 1 in 8,672
- New Jersey#651 · 1 in 9,128
- Pennsylvania#719 · 1 in 13,713
- Ohio#785 · 1 in 15,961
Best ever in a state: #172 in District of Columbia, 1994.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #528 | 11 | 1 in 6,456 |
| Virginia | #635 | 5 | 1 in 8,672 |
| New Jersey | #651 | 6 | 1 in 9,128 |
| Pennsylvania | #719 | 6 | 1 in 13,713 |
| Ohio | #785 | 5 | 1 in 15,961 |
| Illinois | #843 | 7 | 1 in 12,746 |
| New York | #919 | 10 | 1 in 13,884 |
| California | #1,181 | 12 | 1 in 24,190 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Desean
- 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)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1991 at #954 (125 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 25 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1994–1995
- 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
- 28.3% of all boys named Desean (1,139) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 18 | #2,415 (1969) | #3,276 |
| 1970s | 211 | #1,858 (1977) | #2,101 |
| 1980s | 456 | #1,145 (1988) | #1,646 |
| 1990s | 1,139 | #954 (1991) | #1,063 |
| 2000s | 1,108 | #1,137 (2001) | #1,345 |
| 2010s | 897 | #1,149 (2011) | #1,918 |
| 2020s | 202 | #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 1990
Top boys' names in 1990
More about 1990
boys
2,054,038 boys got a published name in 1990; 1 in 21,176 of them was named Desean, which outranked 88.6% of the 9,493 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).