Desmin
Desmin was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,502 among boys’ names; 187 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Desmin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Desmin?
#12,502 among boys’ names, 2025
Desmin entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,502 in 2025.
12 babies in 1997, the peak
Desmin peaked in 1997, when 12 boys were given it, #5,025 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,502 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,935 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,110 | 3.3 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,684 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,984 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,890 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,083 | 3.1 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,410 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,733 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,166 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 6 | #10,423 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,296 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,353 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,673 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,528 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,075 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,554 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,025 | 6.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,538 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,549 | 5.2 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,737 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,690 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,583 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,203 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Desmin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 187 Americans recorded as Desmin, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 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 Desmin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Desmin, and how old are they?
An estimated 183 Americans named Desmin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 224 people named Desmin (41 women and girls, 183 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 28% 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, Desmin is the second most given (10% 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 Desmin
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 Desmin and names like it
- Compare Desmin and DesmonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDesmin peaked in 1997.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Desmin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Desmin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.