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Desmon

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Desmon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
170.00% of boys
Peak year
199251 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1969
1,285people given the name
Babies named Desmon, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,285 boys have been named Desmon in the United States since 1969, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1992, with 51 births.

It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 1990s alone account for 31%.

By decade

Decadeboys named Desmon
1960s5
1970s131
1980s248
1990s395
2000s306
2010s137
2020s63

In 1992, its biggest year

Desmon was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1992 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1992.

Names that rose and fell with Desmon

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.