Deshaun
Deshaun was given to 33 boys in 2025, #3,462 among boys’ names; 5,949 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,770 Americans named Deshaun and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 18 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deshaun by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deshaun?
#3,462 among boys’ names, 2025
Deshaun fell from #1,731 in 2015 to #3,462 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 46.4 to 19.3 per million.
233 babies in 2006, the peak
Deshaun peaked in 2006, when 233 boys were given it, #860 among boys’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #3,462 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,119 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,277 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,445 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,417 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,098 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 74 | #1,980 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 85 | #1,795 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 75 | #1,923 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 82 | #1,832 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 89 | #1,731 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 85 | #1,770 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 76 | #1,867 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 103 | #1,547 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 125 | #1,352 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 125 | #1,359 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 153 | #1,182 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 174 | #1,076 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 197 | #991 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 233 | #860 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 186 | #940 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 180 | #938 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 163 | #978 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 194 | #854 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 190 | #847 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 195 | #819 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 174 | #867 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 188 | #807 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 175 | #827 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 179 | #802 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 168 | #825 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 167 | #821 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 157 | #844 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 127 | #949 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 120 | #969 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 92 | #1,117 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 86 | #1,141 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 95 | #993 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 62 | #1,237 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 89 | #970 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 83 | #999 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 42 | #1,487 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 65 | #1,109 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 59 | #1,212 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 61 | #1,180 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 85 | #974 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 80 | #994 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 86 | #936 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 46 | #1,342 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 16 | #2,632 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 29 | #1,718 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 25 | #1,842 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,145 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,265 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,303 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,367 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,279 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Deshaun a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,949 Americans recorded as Deshaun, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 33 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Deshaun: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deshaun, and how old are they?
5,770 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 5,949 Americans ever recorded as Deshaun. The median Deshaun alive today is 26 years old; half are between 18 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 4,309 people named Deshaun (222 women and girls, 4,087 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,527 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 | 500 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,680 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,720 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 873 |
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 Deshaun born?
The states with the most babies named Deshaun are Illinois, California and Texas, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 439 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 381 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 359 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 305 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 283 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 247 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 223 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 211 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 199 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 180 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Deshaun is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Deshaun is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1967 it was given 1.6 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 Deshaun 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 10,286 babies since 1880, Deshaun is the most given (58% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 60 babies (55%), 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 Deshaun
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 Deshaun and names like it
- Compare Deshaun and DeshonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDeshaun peaked in 2006.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deshaun since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Deshaun.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Deshaun alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.