Desman
Desman was last recorded in 2017, when 5 babies were given it; 179 Americans have been recorded with it between 1978 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Desman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Desman?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,753, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1992, the peak
Desman peaked in 1992, when 11 boys were given it, #4,952 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | #12,753 | 2.7 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,603 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,970 | 3.7 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,958 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,409 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,499 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,366 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,295 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,892 | 3.5 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,562 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 7 | #8,420 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,323 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,013 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,773 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,329 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,056 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,154 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,952 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,511 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,084 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,905 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,567 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,311 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,207 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,227 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,044 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Desman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Desman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Desman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Desman, and how old are they?
An estimated 173 Americans named Desman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 22 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 202 people named Desman (11 women and girls, 191 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 175 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,815 babies since 1880, Desman is the third most given (9.9% of them).
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 Desman
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 Desman and names like it
- Compare Desman and DesmonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDesman peaked in 1992.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Desman.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Desman alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.