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Deshon

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Deshon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
100.00% of boys
Peak year
199794 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1966
2,703people given the name
Babies named Deshon, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

2,537 boys have been named Deshon in the United States since 1966, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1997, with 94 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 1996, and the 1990s alone account for 33%.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 166 girls have also been given it, 6.1% of the total.

By decade

Decadeboys named Deshon
1960s36
1970s339
1980s320
1990s825
2000s560
2010s333
2020s124

In 1997, its biggest year

Deshon was outside the top 1,000 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 Deshon

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.