Deshon — #7845 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Deshon

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,537 babies named Deshon between 1966 and 2024, spanning 59 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Deshon currently holds the #7845 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 94 babies received it in a single year. Deshon is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 166 additional births since 1966.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Deshon performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 825 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Deshon shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 244 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Deshon in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Deshon 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 2,537 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.