Desmon
Desmon was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,114 among boys’ names; 1,293 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,240 Americans named Desmon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 21 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Desmon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Desmon?
#9,114 among boys’ names, 2025
Desmon fell from #5,800 in 2015 to #9,114 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.8 to 4.7 per million.
51 babies in 1992, the peak
Desmon peaked in 1992, when 51 boys were given it, #1,675 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,114 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,488 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,624 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,915 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,096 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,819 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,365 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,318 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,342 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,820 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #5,800 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,736 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,446 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,296 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,115 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,882 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,894 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,832 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,807 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,922 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,180 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,551 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 36 | #2,740 | 18.2 |
| 2002 | 43 | #2,384 | 22.1 |
| 2001 | 40 | #2,437 | 20.6 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,020 | 25.5 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,295 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 39 | #2,284 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 49 | #1,890 | 26.0 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,764 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 37 | #2,181 | 19.4 |
| 1994 | 31 | #2,451 | 16.0 |
| 1993 | 43 | #1,909 | 21.9 |
| 1992 | 51 | #1,675 | 25.5 |
| 1991 | 49 | #1,675 | 24.3 |
| 1990 | 45 | #1,754 | 21.9 |
| 1989 | 39 | #1,898 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 31 | #2,045 | 16.2 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,487 | 11.8 |
| 1986 | 25 | #2,243 | 13.6 |
| 1985 | 27 | #2,085 | 14.6 |
| 1984 | 22 | #2,311 | 12.2 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,285 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,450 | 11.0 |
| 1981 | 19 | #2,516 | 10.6 |
| 1980 | 30 | #1,868 | 16.8 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,609 | 10.5 |
| 1978 | 21 | #2,224 | 12.8 |
| 1977 | 22 | #2,142 | 13.4 |
| 1976 | 24 | #2,012 | 15.3 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,942 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,920 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,512 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,573 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,198 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,549 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Desmon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Desmon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Desmon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Desmon, and how old are they?
1,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,293 Americans ever recorded as Desmon. The median Desmon alive today is 30 years old; half are between 21 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 967 people named Desmon (18 women and girls, 949 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,189 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 151 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 477 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 456 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 160 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,815 babies since 1880, Desmon is the most given (71% 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 Desmon
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 Desmon and names like it
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- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Desmon.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Desmon alive today were born 1981-1996.
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