Deshonda — girls' name

What the Data Says About Deshonda

The Social Security Administration has registered 334 babies named Deshonda between 1969 and 1999, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Deshonda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1999. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 20 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Deshonda performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 127 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Deshonda shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Deshonda in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Deshonda 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 334 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.