Deshaun
Last seen for girls in 1998 at #12,426 · #3,450 for boys in 2025, 33 births
Given to boys 96.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 179 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,718since 1968
Deshaun over time
Rank among boys' names. Deshaun has never cracked the top 800 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,450 | 33 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,104 | 39 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,277 | 62 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,438 | 57 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,410 | 56 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,094 | 67 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,974 | 74 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,792 | 85 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,918 | 75 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,828 | 82 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,729 | 89 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,766 | 85 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,866 | 76 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,545 | 103 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,350 | 125 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,358 | 125 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,182 | 153 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,074 | 174 | |
| 2007 | — | #990 | 197 | |
| 2006 | — | #859 | 233 | |
| 2005 | — | #937 | 186 | |
| 2004 | — | #939 | 180 | |
| 2003 | — | #979 | 163 | |
| 2002 | — | #855 | 194 | |
| 2001 | — | #847 | 190 | |
| 2000 | — | #821 | 195 | |
| 1999 | — | #867 | 174 | |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #808 | 188 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #828 | 175 |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | #802 | 179 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #827 | 168 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | #822 | 167 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #845 | 157 |
| 1992 | — | #952 | 127 | |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 | #972 | 120 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #1,117 | 92 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #1,145 | 86 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #994 | 95 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | #1,234 | 62 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | #971 | 89 |
| 1985 | — | #998 | 83 | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #1,481 | 42 |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 | #1,107 | 65 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #1,210 | 59 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | #1,177 | 61 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | #974 | 85 |
| 1979 | #4,420 | 16 | #991 | 80 |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 | #932 | 86 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #1,335 | 46 |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | #2,601 | 16 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #1,704 | 29 |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | #1,832 | 25 |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 | #2,124 | 19 |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 | #2,243 | 17 |
| 1971 | #5,543 | 9 | #2,279 | 17 |
| 1970 | #4,761 | 11 | #4,230 | 6 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Deshaun! It came in at #4,136, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1969, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Deshaun is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#387 · 1 in 5,631
- Ohio#500 · 1 in 8,932
- Illinois#523 · 1 in 6,442
- Michigan#529 · 1 in 8,379
- New York#887 · 1 in 15,860
Best ever in a state: #360 in Arkansas, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kentucky | #387 | 5 | 1 in 5,631 |
| Ohio | #500 | 9 | 1 in 8,932 |
| Illinois | #523 | 13 | 1 in 6,442 |
| Michigan | #529 | 8 | 1 in 8,379 |
| New York | #887 | 7 | 1 in 15,860 |
| California | #940 | 10 | 1 in 17,973 |
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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 Deshaun
- 346 spots since 2024 (#3,104 → #3,450)
- 1,356 spots since 2020 (#2,094 → #3,450)
- 1,721 spots since 2015 (#1,729 → #3,450)
- Biggest jump: 483 spots in 1985 (#1,481 → #998)
- Biggest drop: 263 spots in 1987 (#971 → #1,234)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1996 at #802 (179 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 23 yrs · run 1991–2007
- Highest: 1 in 8,821 boys born in 2006 were named Deshaun (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 51,760 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #802 in 1996, was only 1 in 10,583 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.6% of all boys named Deshaun (1,865) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,136 (1968) | #4,136 |
| 1970s | 341 | #932 (1978) | #2,027 |
| 1980s | 727 | #971 (1986) | #1,129 |
| 1990s | 1,547 | #802 (1996) | #884 |
| 2000s | 1,865 | #821 (2000) | #948 |
| 2010s | 919 | #1,350 (2011) | #1,713 |
| 2020s | 314 | #2,094 (2020) | #2,629 |
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.
Deshaun in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 100,329 of them was named Deshaun, which outranked 63.1% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,231Vincenza17
- #4,231Wilda17
- #4,231Yolando17
- #4,420Deshaun16
- #4,420Aarin16
- #4,420Adrean16
- #4,420Adrienna16
- #4,626Akesha15
- #4,626Akua15
- #4,626Alexi15
Tied with 205 names at #4,420; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 21,519 of them was named Deshaun, which outranked 86.0% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).