Deshon
Deshon was given to 15 boys in 2025, #5,920 among boys’ names; 2,718 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,610 Americans named Deshon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 20 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deshon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deshon?
#5,920 among boys’ names, 2025
Deshon fell from #4,756 in 2015 to #5,920 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 10.4 to 8.8 per million.
99 babies in 1997, the peak
Deshon peaked in 1997, when 99 babies were given it (94 boys, #1,231 among boys’ names). The 15 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #5,920 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,898 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,918 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 31 | #3,632 | 17.8 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,931 | 15.4 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,148 | 20.9 |
| 2019 | 24 | #4,251 | 13.4 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,062 | 20.9 |
| 2017 | 23 | #4,354 | 12.4 |
| 2016 | 24 | #4,224 | 12.6 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,756 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,391 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,431 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 46 | #2,642 | 24.2 |
| 2011 | 43 | #2,763 | 22.6 |
| 2010 | 52 | #2,413 | 27.1 |
| 2009 | 43 | #2,811 | 21.7 |
| 2008 | 52 | #2,437 | 25.5 |
| 2007 | 49 | #2,542 | 23.6 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,128 | 29.7 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,133 | 28.5 |
| 2004 | 60 | #1,993 | 30.2 |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,009 | 28.9 |
| 2002 | 56 | #1,976 | 28.8 |
| 2001 | 61 | #1,821 | 31.4 |
| 2000 | 64 | #1,742 | 32.6 |
| 1999 | 62 | #1,693 | 32.3 |
| 1998 | 86 | #1,359 | 45.0 |
| 1997 | 94 | #1,231 | 49.9 |
| 1996 | 78 | #1,371 | 41.2 |
| 1995 | 91 | #1,209 | 47.8 |
| 1994 | 88 | #1,229 | 45.5 |
| 1993 | 90 | #1,176 | 45.9 |
| 1992 | 84 | #1,225 | 42.1 |
| 1991 | 83 | #1,211 | 41.1 |
| 1990 | 69 | #1,334 | 33.6 |
| 1989 | 46 | #1,682 | 23.0 |
| 1988 | 39 | #1,769 | 20.4 |
| 1987 | 40 | #1,688 | 21.4 |
| 1986 | 34 | #1,802 | 18.5 |
| 1985 | 30 | #1,926 | 16.2 |
| 1984 | 25 | #2,113 | 13.9 |
| 1983 | 28 | #1,913 | 15.6 |
| 1982 | 27 | #2,015 | 14.9 |
| 1981 | 20 | #2,432 | 11.2 |
| 1980 | 31 | #1,821 | 17.4 |
| 1979 | 37 | #1,577 | 21.5 |
| 1978 | 33 | #1,663 | 20.1 |
| 1977 | 45 | #1,358 | 27.4 |
| 1976 | 41 | #1,393 | 26.1 |
| 1975 | 34 | #1,537 | 21.8 |
| 1974 | 38 | #1,394 | 24.2 |
| 1973 | 35 | #1,441 | 22.5 |
| 1972 | 29 | #1,610 | 17.9 |
| 1971 | 25 | #1,796 | 14.1 |
| 1970 | 22 | #1,902 | 11.8 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,735 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,223 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,107 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,625 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Deshon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,718 Americans recorded as Deshon, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 15 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 Deshon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deshon, and how old are they?
2,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,718 Americans ever recorded as Deshon. The median Deshon alive today is 30 years old; half are between 20 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 1,933 people named Deshon (175 women and girls, 1,758 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,510 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 | 488 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 856 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 936 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 329 |
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 Deshon born?
The states with the most babies named Deshon are California, Illinois and Georgia, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 244 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 149 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 110 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 93 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 66 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 42 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 37 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 28 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 25 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 24 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Deshon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Deshon is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1966 it was given 1.4 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 Deshon 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, Deshon is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 60 babies (25%), again the second 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 Deshon
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 Deshon and names like it
- Compare Deshon and DeshaunBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDeshon peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deshon since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Deshon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Deshon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.