Meaning not yet researched.
Deshaun: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #804 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #804 in 1996; #3,463 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Deshaun in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,463 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #804.
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Deshaun: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 boys in 2025. Peak: #804 in 1996 · most boys in one year: 233 (2006).
In 2025, 33 US boys were named Deshaun, making it the 3,463rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 342 places from #3,121 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 39 boys named Deshaun in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #804, reached in 1996. The most boys given the name in a single year was 233, in 2006. For comparison, it was #1,731 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Deshaun in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 6 babies. In all, 5,949 US babies have been given the name, 3.9% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,865 babies named Deshaun.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 630 US boys were named Deshaun; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 85. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,760 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Deshawn (17,257 babies since 1880) and Deshon (2,718 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Deshun, Deshan and Deshane 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Deshun (1,354), Deshan (265), Deshane (255), Dyshaun (68), Dishan (33), Deshaune (19), Deshuan (10), Deyshaun (10), Dyshun (6), Dishaun (5), Dezhaun (5), Deshion (5), and more.
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 Deshaun 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 | — | — | 33 | #3,463 |
| 2024 | — | — | 39 | #3,121 |
| 2023 | — | — | 62 | #2,278 |
| 2022 | — | — | 57 | #2,446 |
| 2021 | — | — | 56 | #2,418 |
| 2020 | — | — | 67 | #2,098 |
| 2019 | — | — | 74 | #1,981 |
| 2018 | — | — | 85 | #1,795 |
| 2017 | — | — | 75 | #1,923 |
| 2016 | — | — | 82 | #1,832 |
| 2015 | — | — | 89 | #1,731 |
| 2014 | — | — | 85 | #1,770 |
| 2013 | — | — | 76 | #1,868 |
| 2012 | — | — | 103 | #1,547 |
| 2011 | — | — | 125 | #1,352 |
| 2010 | — | — | 125 | #1,359 |
| 2009 | — | — | 153 | #1,182 |
| 2008 | — | — | 174 | #1,076 |
| 2007 | — | — | 197 | #991 |
| 2006 | — | — | 233 | #860 |
| 2005 | — | — | 186 | #940 |
| 2004 | — | — | 180 | #939 |
| 2003 | — | — | 163 | #979 |
| 2002 | — | — | 194 | #855 |
| 2001 | — | — | 190 | #848 |
| 2000 | — | — | 195 | #821 |
| 1999 | — | — | 174 | #869 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,881 | 188 | #808 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,154 | 175 | #829 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,873 | 179 | #804 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,030 | 168 | #828 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,302 | 167 | #823 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,181 | 157 | #846 |
| 1992 | — | — | 127 | #952 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,546 | 120 | #974 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,539 | 92 | #1,121 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,905 | 86 | #1,145 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,527 | 95 | #994 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,193 | 62 | #1,239 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,728 | 89 | #971 |
| 1985 | — | — | 83 | #1,000 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,393 | 42 | #1,488 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,337 | 65 | #1,109 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,907 | 59 | #1,213 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,337 | 61 | #1,180 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,926 | 85 | #974 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,465 | 80 | #994 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,527 | 86 | #936 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,993 | 46 | #1,342 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,412 | 16 | #2,633 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,432 | 29 | #1,719 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,082 | 25 | #1,842 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,689 | 19 | #2,147 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,589 | 17 | #2,265 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,643 | 17 | #2,304 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,822 | 6 | #4,369 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,109 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,778 | 5 | #4,280 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,209 | — | — |
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).