Meaning not yet researched.
Desean: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #954 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #954 in 1991; #4,429 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Desean in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,429 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #954.
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Desean: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 boys in 2025. Peak: #954 in 1991 · most boys in one year: 157 (2011).
In 2025, 23 US boys were named Desean, making it the 4,429th most common boys’ name of the year, up 314 places from #4,743 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 21 boys named Desean in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #954, reached in 1991. The most boys given the name in a single year was 157, in 2011. For comparison, it was #1,857 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Desean in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 5 babies. In all, 4,042 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,145 babies named Desean.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 398 US boys were named Desean; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 57. In 2025 that was about 1 in 74,264 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Dysen, Desaun and Desuan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dysen (102), Desaun (16), Desuan (5), Dysean (5), Dysan (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Desean in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 23 | #4,429 |
| 2024 | — | — | 21 | #4,743 |
| 2023 | — | — | 28 | #3,918 |
| 2022 | — | — | 40 | #3,066 |
| 2021 | — | — | 40 | #3,032 |
| 2020 | — | — | 50 | #2,559 |
| 2019 | — | — | 43 | #2,868 |
| 2018 | — | — | 43 | #2,812 |
| 2017 | — | — | 57 | #2,299 |
| 2016 | — | — | 53 | #2,416 |
| 2015 | — | — | 79 | #1,857 |
| 2014 | — | — | 97 | #1,612 |
| 2013 | — | — | 92 | #1,650 |
| 2012 | — | — | 119 | #1,398 |
| 2011 | — | — | 157 | #1,149 |
| 2010 | — | — | 157 | #1,168 |
| 2009 | — | — | 130 | #1,334 |
| 2008 | — | — | 117 | #1,428 |
| 2007 | — | — | 110 | #1,459 |
| 2006 | — | — | 105 | #1,462 |
| 2005 | — | — | 110 | #1,365 |
| 2004 | — | — | 110 | #1,336 |
| 2003 | — | — | 98 | #1,374 |
| 2002 | — | — | 102 | #1,308 |
| 2001 | — | — | 122 | #1,137 |
| 2000 | — | — | 104 | #1,261 |
| 1999 | — | — | 105 | #1,213 |
| 1998 | — | — | 113 | #1,127 |
| 1997 | — | — | 112 | #1,126 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,247 | 113 | #1,072 |
| 1995 | — | — | 123 | #1,000 |
| 1994 | — | — | 127 | #982 |
| 1993 | — | — | 114 | #1,034 |
| 1992 | — | — | 110 | #1,044 |
| 1991 | — | — | 125 | #954 |
| 1990 | — | — | 97 | #1,083 |
| 1989 | — | — | 76 | #1,230 |
| 1988 | — | — | 77 | #1,150 |
| 1987 | — | — | 46 | #1,544 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,388 | 67 | #1,157 |
| 1985 | — | — | 51 | #1,359 |
| 1984 | — | — | 35 | #1,664 |
| 1983 | — | — | 35 | #1,662 |
| 1982 | — | — | 18 | #2,621 |
| 1981 | — | — | 25 | #2,101 |
| 1980 | — | — | 26 | #2,072 |
| 1979 | — | — | 22 | #2,253 |
| 1978 | — | — | 20 | #2,303 |
| 1977 | — | — | 27 | #1,872 |
| 1976 | — | — | 21 | #2,190 |
| 1975 | — | — | 24 | #1,963 |
| 1974 | — | — | 22 | #2,002 |
| 1973 | — | — | 17 | #2,336 |
| 1972 | — | — | 21 | #1,987 |
| 1971 | — | — | 19 | #2,147 |
| 1970 | — | — | 18 | #2,142 |
| 1969 | — | — | 13 | #2,451 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,278 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).