Deshun
Deshun was given to 12 boys in 2025, #6,902 among boys’ names; 1,354 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,310 Americans named Deshun and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 18 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deshun by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deshun?
#6,902 among boys’ names, 2025
Deshun fell from #4,584 in 2015 to #6,902 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 7.0 per million.
50 babies in 1994, the peak
Deshun peaked in 1994, when 50 boys were given it, #1,751 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,902 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 15 | #5,977 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,297 | 10.5 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,897 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 30 | #3,665 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,143 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,884 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,244 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,112 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,908 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,584 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,037 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,356 | 11.6 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,529 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,914 | 13.7 |
| 2010 | 27 | #3,835 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 29 | #3,654 | 14.6 |
| 2008 | 26 | #3,956 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 26 | #3,924 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 44 | #2,669 | 21.4 |
| 2005 | 31 | #3,252 | 15.5 |
| 2004 | 36 | #2,850 | 18.1 |
| 2003 | 32 | #3,004 | 16.2 |
| 2002 | 34 | #2,767 | 17.5 |
| 2001 | 32 | #2,874 | 16.5 |
| 2000 | 38 | #2,484 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 33 | #2,621 | 17.2 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,041 | 24.1 |
| 1997 | 46 | #1,967 | 24.4 |
| 1996 | 39 | #2,150 | 20.6 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,104 | 20.5 |
| 1994 | 50 | #1,751 | 25.9 |
| 1993 | 37 | #2,129 | 18.9 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,474 | 14.5 |
| 1991 | 32 | #2,244 | 15.8 |
| 1990 | 25 | #2,633 | 12.2 |
| 1989 | 24 | #2,625 | 12.0 |
| 1988 | 21 | #2,701 | 11.0 |
| 1987 | 15 | #3,232 | 8.0 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,445 | 11.9 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,451 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,133 | 7.8 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,108 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,874 | 8.8 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,662 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 23 | #2,236 | 12.9 |
| 1979 | 22 | #2,253 | 12.8 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,701 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,077 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 17 | #2,532 | 10.8 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,291 | 7.0 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,299 | 11.4 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,894 | 7.7 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,564 | 8.6 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,942 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,679 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Deshun a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,354 Americans recorded as Deshun, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 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 Deshun: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deshun, and how old are they?
1,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,354 Americans ever recorded as Deshun. The median Deshun alive today is 28 years old; half are between 18 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 975 people named Deshun (70 women and girls, 905 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,228 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 | 173 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 393 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 513 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 229 |
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 Deshun born?
The states with the most babies named Deshun are Tennessee, Texas and Georgia, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 101 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Texas | 89 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 69 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Mississippi | 46 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Illinois | 25 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Alabama | 10 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Deshun is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Deshun is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1969 it was given 3.4 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 Deshun 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, Deshun is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 60 babies (20%), again the third 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 Deshun
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 Deshun and names like it
- Compare Deshun and DeshaunBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDeshun peaked in 1994.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deshun since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Deshun.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Deshun alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.