Deshay — unisex name

What the Data Says About Deshay

The Social Security Administration has registered 290 babies named Deshay between 1977 and 2015, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Deshay currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 20 babies received it in a single year. Deshay is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 183 additional births since 1973.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Deshay performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 149 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Deshay shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Deshay in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Deshay 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 290 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.