Deshaun
Deshaun is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 39 births. Its best rank was 804th, in 1996.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 390.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2006233 births
- Best rank
- #804in 1996
- Since 1968
- 5,916people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,685 boys have been named Deshaun in the United States since 1968, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 233 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 2000s alone account for 33%. It has spent 23 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 231 girls have also been given it, 3.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2006, its biggest year
Deshaun was the 860th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2006 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Ethan and Matthew. See all of 2006.
Names that rose and fell with Deshaun
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tyshonpeak 2000
- Gianfrancopeak 2002
- Abrahanpeak 2003
- Jontaepeak 2007
- Alejandropeak 2001
- Alexandropeak 2004
- Cesarpeak 2004
- Zethpeak 1999
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.