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 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Michigan#999 · 1 in 6,694
- Florida#1,814 · 1 in 18,845
- Texas#2,113 · 1 in 25,344
Best ever in a state: #360 in Arkansas, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | #999 | 6 | 1 in 6,694 |
| Florida | #1,814 | 5 | 1 in 18,845 |
| Texas | #2,113 | 7 | 1 in 25,344 |
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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 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 27,590 of them was named Deshaun, which outranked 84.0% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,244Yash63
- #2,244Yusef63
- #2,244Zach63
- #2,277Deshaun62
- #2,277Collins62
- #2,277Fateh62
- #2,277Genaro62
- #2,290Adley61
- #2,290Ahsan61
- #2,290Brenden61
Tied with 12 names at #2,277; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.