Deshonna — girls' name

What the Data Says About Deshonna

The Social Security Administration has registered 159 babies named Deshonna between 1976 and 2005, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Deshonna currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1976, when 16 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Deshonna performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 55 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Deshonna shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Deshonna in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Deshonna 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 159 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.