Deshon
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
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
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.
- Demarcopeak 1998
- Nigelpeak 1994
- Deshunpeak 1994
- Deshawnpeak 1997
- Kelbypeak 1991
- Demitriuspeak 1992
- Devaughnpeak 1993
- Mikalpeak 1993
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.