Deshon
Last seen for girls in 1998 at #14,122 · #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
Given to boys 93.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1993 · 90 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,552since 1966
Deshon over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | — | #5,861 | 15 | |
| 2024 | — | #7,765 | 10 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,886 | 20 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,617 | 31 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,912 | 27 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,136 | 36 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,230 | 24 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,055 | 38 | |
| 2017 | — | #4,331 | 23 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,199 | 24 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,711 | 20 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,371 | 32 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,405 | 31 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,632 | 46 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,748 | 43 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,402 | 52 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,800 | 43 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,432 | 52 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,533 | 49 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,126 | 61 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,129 | 57 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,989 | 60 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,006 | 57 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,974 | 56 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,816 | 61 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,742 | 64 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,692 | 62 | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #1,359 | 86 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #1,234 | 94 |
| 1996 | — | #1,368 | 78 | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #1,213 | 91 |
| 1994 | — | #1,231 | 88 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,179 | 90 | |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #1,228 | 84 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #1,216 | 83 |
| 1990 | — | #1,336 | 69 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,678 | 46 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,768 | 39 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,684 | 40 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,791 | 34 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,916 | 30 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,098 | 25 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,905 | 28 | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #1,999 | 27 |
| 1981 | — | #2,418 | 20 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,808 | 31 | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #1,570 | 37 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #1,652 | 33 |
| 1977 | — | #1,356 | 45 | |
| 1976 | #5,215 | 11 | #1,390 | 41 |
| 1975 | — | #1,530 | 34 | |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | #1,388 | 38 |
| 1973 | #3,481 | 18 | #1,435 | 35 |
| 1972 | #5,109 | 10 | #1,603 | 29 |
| 1971 | #4,123 | 14 | #1,784 | 25 |
| 1970 | #3,435 | 18 | #1,889 | 22 |
| 1969 | #3,958 | 13 | #2,682 | 11 |
| 1968 | #3,789 | 13 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 | #3,537 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Deshon! It came in at #3,537, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1966–1967, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Deshon is popular in 1977
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Ohio#629 · 1 in 12,914
- Illinois#788 · 1 in 13,561
- California#939 · 1 in 18,381
Best ever in a state: #446 in Wisconsin, 1991.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Ohio | #629 | 6 | 1 in 12,914 |
| Illinois | #788 | 6 | 1 in 13,561 |
| California | #939 | 9 | 1 in 18,381 |
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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 Deshon
- 1,904 spots since 2024 (#7,765 → #5,861)
- 2,725 spots since 2020 (#3,136 → #5,861)
- 1,150 spots since 2015 (#4,711 → #5,861)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 1993 at #1,179 (90 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,055 boys born in 1997 were named Deshon (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 113,872 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,179 in 1993, was only 1 in 21,793 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.3% of all boys named Deshon (825) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1969, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 36 | #2,200 (1968) | #3,096 |
| 1970s | 339 | #1,356 (1977) | #1,560 |
| 1980s | 320 | #1,678 (1989) | #1,907 |
| 1990s | 825 | #1,179 (1993) | #1,306 |
| 2000s | 560 | #1,742 (2000) | #2,155 |
| 2010s | 333 | #2,402 (2010) | #3,508 |
| 2020s | 139 | #3,136 (2020) | #4,863 |
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.
Deshon in 1977
Top boys' names in 1977
More about 1977
boys
1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 36,516 of them was named Deshon, which outranked 80.2% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,335Porfirio46
- #1,335Quincey46
- #1,335Wayland46
- #1,356Deshon45
- #1,356Antone45
- #1,356Dawayne45
- #1,356Glendon45
- #1,367Abelardo44
- #1,367Ammon44
- #1,367Augustus44
Tied with 10 names at #1,356; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.