Desmon

#8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births

Peak · boys
1992 · 51 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,293
since 1969

Desmon over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Desmon has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201969peak #1,677, 1992boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#8,9108
2024#5,44317
2023#6,51713
2022#6,82812
2021#6,03214
2020#9,5547
2019#8,2159
2018#8,1549
2017#5,29717
2016#6,72612
2015#5,74615
2014#6,63212
2013#5,40416
2012#5,25617
2011#7,00911
2010#4,84819
2009#6,80212
2008#5,76715
2007#3,79327
2006#3,88825
2005#3,17232
2004#3,53426
2003#2,72936
2002#2,37243
2001#2,42940
2000#2,01550
1999#3,27924
1998#2,27439
1997#1,89049
1996#2,74727
1995#2,17837
1994#2,44431
1993#1,90743
1992#1,67751
1991#1,67749
1990#1,75545
1989#1,89139
1988#2,03531
1987#2,46822
1986#2,22625
1985#2,07127
1984#2,29222
1983#3,23013
1982#2,42620
1981#2,49619
1980#1,85230
1979#2,56818
1978#2,20521
1977#2,13122
1976#1,99924
1975#2,90213
1974#3,8378
1973#3,4459
1972#4,4416
1971#3,14610
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First appearance
1969

The first year at least five boys were named Desmon! It came in at #4,404, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1969–1970, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Desmon
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 3,467 spots since 2024 (#5,443#8,910)
  • 644 spots since 2020 (#9,554#8,910)
  • 3,164 spots since 2015 (#5,746#8,910)
Rise & fade · boys
23 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1969
  • Peaked 1992 at #1,677 (51 births)
  • Births halved by 1999, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 38,472
  • Highest: 1 in 38,472 boys born in 1997 were named Desmon (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,677 in 1992, was only 1 in 39,165 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 30.5% of all boys named Desmon (395) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s5#4,404 (1969)#4,404
1970s131#1,999 (1976)#2,964
1980s248#1,852 (1980)#2,299
1990s395#1,677 (1992)#2,183
2000s306#2,015 (2000)#3,650
2010s137#4,848 (2010)#6,329
2020s71#5,443 (2024)#7,214

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.

Desmon in 1969

boys
#4,404
5 births · 1 in 357,635 boys

Top boys' names in 1969

  1. #1Michael85,162
  2. #2David63,672
  3. #3James59,886
  4. #4John58,732
  5. #5Robert58,300
  6. #6William37,607
  7. #7Christopher35,672
  8. #8Mark33,388
  9. #9Brian31,669
  10. #10Richard31,085
  11. #4,404Desmon5
More about 1969

boys

1,788,174 boys got a published name in 1969; 1 in 357,635 of them was named Desmon, which outranked 12.7% of the 5,043 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 27.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Desmon
  1. #3,935Zach6
  2. #3,935Zeb6
  3. #3,935Zenon6
  4. #4,404Desmon5
  5. #4,404Abbott5
  6. #4,404Adrean5
  7. #4,404Adrin5

Tied with 639 names at #4,404; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1968
Risers
  1. 1,735Dedric#2,735#1,000
  2. 780Jameson#1,731#951
  3. 589Torrey#1,393#804
  4. 549Jamison#1,258#709
  5. 534Jemal#1,083#549
Fallers
  1. 449Artis#877#1,326
  2. 410Kennedy#986#1,396
  3. 408Alfie#968#1,376
  4. 360Micky#861#1,221
  5. 356Montgomery#946#1,302

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1969