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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 353,390 of them was named Deshon, which outranked 14.9% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,479 names at #14,122; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 22,225 of them was named Deshon, which outranked 88.0% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,356Jeramiah87
- #1,356Marcell87
- #1,356Rayquan87
- #1,359Deshon86
- #1,359Bradlee86
- #1,359Christain86
- #1,359Darrick86
- #1,372Cornell85
- #1,372Courtland85
- #1,372Djimon85
Tied with 12 names at #1,359; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.