Desean
Desean is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 21 births. Its best rank was 954th, in 1991.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 210.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2010157 births
- Best rank
- #954in 1991
- Since 1968
- 4,007people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,007 boys have been named Desean in the United States since 1968, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2010, with 157 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 2001, and the 1990s alone account for 28%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2010, its biggest year
Desean was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2010 were Jacob, Ethan, Michael, Jayden and William. See all of 2010.
Names that rose and fell with Desean
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Blakepeak 2012
- Rashaudpeak 1993
- Damarcuspeak 2006
- Jamichaelpeak 2007
- Alexandrepeak 2003
- Deanthonypeak 1995
- Demariuspeak 2006
- Abrahanpeak 2003
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.