Desean
Desean was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,428 among boys’ names; 4,042 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,930 Americans named Desean and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 16 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Desean by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Desean?
#4,428 among boys’ names, 2025
Desean fell from #1,857 in 2015 to #4,428 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 41.2 to 13.5 per million.
157 babies in 2010, the peak
Desean peaked in 2010, when 157 boys were given it, #1,168 among boys’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,428 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,739 | 12.2 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,915 | 16.4 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,064 | 22.9 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,031 | 22.9 |
| 2020 | 50 | #2,558 | 29.0 |
| 2019 | 43 | #2,867 | 24.0 |
| 2018 | 43 | #2,811 | 23.7 |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,298 | 30.8 |
| 2016 | 53 | #2,416 | 27.9 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 79 | #1,857 | 41.2 |
| 2014 | 97 | #1,612 | 50.5 |
| 2013 | 92 | #1,649 | 48.6 |
| 2012 | 119 | #1,398 | 62.7 |
| 2011 | 157 | #1,149 | 82.7 |
| 2010 | 157 | #1,168 | 81.8 |
| 2009 | 130 | #1,334 | 65.5 |
| 2008 | 117 | #1,428 | 57.3 |
| 2007 | 110 | #1,459 | 53.0 |
| 2006 | 105 | #1,462 | 51.1 |
| 2005 | 110 | #1,364 | 55.1 |
| 2004 | 110 | #1,334 | 55.4 |
| 2003 | 98 | #1,373 | 49.6 |
| 2002 | 102 | #1,305 | 52.5 |
| 2001 | 122 | #1,135 | 62.8 |
| 2000 | 104 | #1,258 | 53.0 |
| 1999 | 105 | #1,211 | 54.7 |
| 1998 | 113 | #1,124 | 59.1 |
| 1997 | 112 | #1,123 | 59.4 |
| 1996 | 113 | #1,070 | 59.7 |
| 1995 | 123 | #997 | 64.6 |
| 1994 | 127 | #978 | 65.7 |
| 1993 | 114 | #1,030 | 58.1 |
| 1992 | 110 | #1,041 | 55.1 |
| 1991 | 125 | #949 | 61.9 |
| 1990 | 97 | #1,079 | 47.2 |
| 1989 | 76 | #1,225 | 38.0 |
| 1988 | 77 | #1,147 | 40.2 |
| 1987 | 46 | #1,542 | 24.6 |
| 1986 | 67 | #1,156 | 36.4 |
| 1985 | 51 | #1,358 | 27.6 |
| 1984 | 35 | #1,663 | 19.4 |
| 1983 | 35 | #1,661 | 19.5 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,620 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 25 | #2,100 | 14.0 |
| 1980 | 26 | #2,072 | 14.6 |
| 1979 | 22 | #2,252 | 12.8 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,303 | 12.2 |
| 1977 | 27 | #1,872 | 16.4 |
| 1976 | 21 | #2,189 | 13.4 |
| 1975 | 24 | #1,962 | 15.4 |
| 1974 | 22 | #2,002 | 14.0 |
| 1973 | 17 | #2,334 | 10.9 |
| 1972 | 21 | #1,987 | 13.0 |
| 1971 | 19 | #2,146 | 10.7 |
| 1970 | 18 | #2,141 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,450 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,277 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Desean a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Desean has been given almost only to boys: 11 girls in 58 years of records.
Girls and boys named Desean: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Desean, and how old are they?
3,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 4,042 Americans ever recorded as Desean. The median Desean alive today is 25 years old; half are between 16 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 2,896 people named Desean (64 women and girls, 2,832 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,771 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 229 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,840 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 661 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Desean born?
The states with the most babies named Desean are California, New York and Michigan, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 303 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 281 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 181 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 163 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 152 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 142 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 136 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 135 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 134 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 98 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Desean is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Desean is most over-represented in Virginia: since 1968 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Desean with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,379 babies since 1880, Desean is the most given (92% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 23 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Desean
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Desean and names like it
- Compare Desean and DseanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDesean peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Desean since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Desean.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Desean alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.