Dezmond
Dezmond was given to 72 boys in 2025, #2,060 among boys’ names; 3,632 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,570 Americans named Dezmond and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dezmond by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dezmond?
#2,060 among boys’ names, 2025
Dezmond fell from #1,370 in 2015 to #2,060 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 66.3 to 42.2 per million.
135 babies in 2009, the peak
Dezmond peaked in 2009, when 135 boys were given it, #1,298 among boys’ names. The 72 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,060 | 42.2 |
| 2024 | 88 | #1,838 | 51.1 |
| 2023 | 88 | #1,818 | 51.4 |
| 2022 | 108 | #1,613 | 61.9 |
| 2021 | 96 | #1,702 | 54.9 |
| 2020 | 88 | #1,749 | 51.0 |
| 2019 | 105 | #1,584 | 58.5 |
| 2018 | 116 | #1,492 | 63.9 |
| 2017 | 118 | #1,450 | 63.8 |
| 2016 | 120 | #1,446 | 63.2 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 127 | #1,370 | 66.3 |
| 2014 | 118 | #1,423 | 61.4 |
| 2013 | 133 | #1,299 | 70.3 |
| 2012 | 117 | #1,422 | 61.7 |
| 2011 | 117 | #1,416 | 61.6 |
| 2010 | 111 | #1,472 | 57.9 |
| 2009 | 135 | #1,298 | 68.1 |
| 2008 | 94 | #1,644 | 46.1 |
| 2007 | 83 | #1,773 | 40.0 |
| 2006 | 97 | #1,537 | 47.2 |
| 2005 | 83 | #1,637 | 41.6 |
| 2004 | 89 | #1,505 | 44.8 |
| 2003 | 83 | #1,538 | 42.0 |
| 2002 | 99 | #1,332 | 51.0 |
| 2001 | 99 | #1,315 | 51.0 |
| 2000 | 104 | #1,259 | 53.0 |
| 1999 | 98 | #1,258 | 51.0 |
| 1998 | 108 | #1,161 | 56.5 |
| 1997 | 119 | #1,063 | 63.1 |
| 1996 | 68 | #1,480 | 35.9 |
| 1995 | 64 | #1,492 | 33.6 |
| 1994 | 66 | #1,453 | 34.2 |
| 1993 | 58 | #1,556 | 29.6 |
| 1992 | 69 | #1,356 | 34.5 |
| 1991 | 40 | #1,921 | 19.8 |
| 1990 | 45 | #1,755 | 21.9 |
| 1989 | 46 | #1,684 | 23.0 |
| 1988 | 32 | #2,000 | 16.7 |
| 1987 | 17 | #2,977 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,811 | 9.8 |
| 1985 | 25 | #2,184 | 13.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,568 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,944 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,157 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,625 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,678 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,528 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,055 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,306 | 3.7 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,965 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dezmond a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dezmond has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dezmond: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dezmond, and how old are they?
3,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,632 Americans ever recorded as Dezmond. The median Dezmond alive today is 17 years old; half are between 10 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 2,371 people named Dezmond (25 women and girls, 2,346 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,070 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 | 31 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 560 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,610 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,370 |
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 Dezmond born?
The states with the most babies named Dezmond are Texas, Indiana and Washington, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Indiana and Washington are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,349 | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 6 | #882 | 0.3× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,039 | 0.5× |
Where Dezmond is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dezmond is most over-represented in Texas: since 1975 it was given 1.1 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 Dezmond 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,686 babies since 1880, Dezmond is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 72 of their 72 babies (100%), again the 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 Dezmond
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 Dezmond and names like it
- Compare Dezmond and DezmundBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDezmond peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dezmond since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Dezmond.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dezmond alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.