Deshan
Deshan was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 265 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deshan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deshan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,669, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1992, the peak
Deshan peaked in 1992, when 13 boys were given it, #4,376 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #12,669 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,109 | 3.3 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,532 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,535 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,724 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,751 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,081 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,191 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,408 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,364 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | #11,797 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,311 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,676 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,053 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,418 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,988 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,011 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,771 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,266 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,548 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,089 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,376 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,086 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,749 | 5.4 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,231 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,475 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,793 | 2.7 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,518 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,872 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,042 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,246 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,100 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,673 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,419 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,084 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,095 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Deshan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 265 Americans recorded as Deshan, 5% are girls and 95% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Deshan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deshan, and how old are they?
An estimated 253 Americans named Deshan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 23 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 304 people named Deshan (60 women and girls, 244 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 251 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 10,286 babies since 1880, Deshan is the fourth most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 60 babies recorded by SSA was a Deshan (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Deshan
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 Deshan and names like it
- Compare Deshan and DeshaunBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDeshan peaked in 1992.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Deshan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Deshan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.