Deshaun

Where Deshaun comes from

Deshaun hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1968
    First appearance
    #4,136 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1971
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1991
    Deshaun Thomas born
    American basketball player
  4. 1995
    Deshaun Watson born
    American football player
  5. 1996
    Peak, #802
    179 babies named Deshaun — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2013
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,866.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Deshaun Thomas · American basketball player, born 1991
  • Deshaun Watson · American football player, born 1995

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.