Deshawn — #1448 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Deshawn

The Social Security Administration has registered 15,970 babies named Deshawn between 1964 and 2024, spanning 61 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Deshawn currently holds the #1448 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 563 babies received it in a single year. Deshawn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,183 additional births since 1962.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Deshawn performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 4,992 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Deshawn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Michigan, which accounts for 1,519 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Deshawn in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Deshawn 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 15,970 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.