Deshawn
Deshawn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 125 births. Its best rank was 408th, in 1994.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1250.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1997563 births
- Best rank
- #408in 1994
- Since 1964
- 17,153people given the name
The story in the numbers
15,970 boys have been named Deshawn in the United States since 1964, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1997, with 563 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 1990s alone account for 31%. It has spent 45 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,183 girls have also been given it, 6.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1997, its biggest year
Deshawn was the 411th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1997 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Christopher and Joshua. See all of 1997.
Names that rose and fell with Deshawn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Deshunpeak 1994
- Curranpeak 1993
- Rayshawnpeak 2006
- Dashonpeak 1997
- Nigelpeak 1994
- Tyshonpeak 2000
- Keronpeak 1993
- Markesepeak 1995
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.