Deshante — unisex name

What the Data Says About Deshante

The Social Security Administration has registered 68 babies named Deshante between 1981 and 2004, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Deshante currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2004. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Deshante is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 19 additional births since 1992.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Deshante performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 46 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Deshante shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Deshante in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Deshante in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 68 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.