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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 292,168 of them was named Desean, which outranked 25.7% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,567Zuly7
- #10,567Zury7
- #10,567Zyanya7
- #11,807Desean6
- #11,807Aalayah6
- #11,807Aamna6
- #11,807Aarthi6
- #13,518Aaleeyah5
- #13,518Abbiegail5
- #13,518Abigahil5
Tied with 1,710 names at #11,807; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 16,764 of them was named Desean, which outranked 89.8% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,067Britton114
- #1,067Demario114
- #1,067Raven114
- #1,071Desean113
- #1,071Alessandro113
- #1,071Giovani113
- #1,071Giovanny113
- #1,079Braulio112
- #1,079Cal112
- #1,079Gideon112
Tied with 7 names at #1,071; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.