Desmen
Desmen was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 156 Americans have been recorded with it between 1980 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Desmen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Desmen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,672, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1997, the peak
Desmen peaked in 1997, when 12 boys were given it, #5,024 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #12,672 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,536 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,732 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,500 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,792 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,313 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,031 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,672 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,527 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,421 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 10 | #6,148 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,776 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,024 | 6.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,186 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,012 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,873 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,326 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,521 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,400 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,556 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,675 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,701 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Desmen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Desmen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Desmen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Desmen, and how old are they?
An estimated 151 Americans named Desmen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 22 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 159 people named Desmen (4 women and girls, 155 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 153 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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, Desmen is the fourth most given (8.6% 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 Desmen
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 Desmen and names like it
- Compare Desmen and DesmonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDesmen peaked in 1997.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Desmen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Desmen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.