Girls' name · since 1971
Deshanta
Deshanta has 61 recorded births since 1971 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1992 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #32,631 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 61
- born since 1971
- 1990s
- peak decade
Deshanta is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 61 have been recorded since 1971.
Deshanta has 61 recorded births among girls since 1971, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1971 to 1995.
- #32,631 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 61 born since 1971
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Deshanta ranks #32,631 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 61 born since 1971, peaking in the 1990s.
- #32,631 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 61
- born since 1971
- 1990s
- peak decade
Deshanta's 61 recorded births place it above 54.68% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Deshanta's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Deshanta's full recorded timeline at 1983, 56% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 44% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1971, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1992 peak of 8 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Deshanta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1971–1995
- Peak year (1992)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 25 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000, last recorded 1995.
61 total births across 25 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1992 with 8 births in a single year.
Deshanta by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (24 births, 39% of the file).
1990s was Deshanta's strongest decade.
24 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 39% of all-time use.
Deshanta births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
21 births
- 1980s
1980s
16 births
- 1990s
1990s
24 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 24 births (39% of all-time use).
Deshanta decade highlights
- Peak decade 24 births
- Runner-up 21 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
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Two nationwide peer axes for Deshanta: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1992)
Similar record span (~24 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1971–1995 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Deshanta draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
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