Meaning not yet researched.
Deshawn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 100 in 2025. Its best rank was #408 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #408 in 1994; #1,663 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Deshawn in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,663 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #408.
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Deshawn: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 100 boys in 2025. Peak: #408 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 563 (1997).
In 2025, 100 US boys were named Deshawn, making it the 1,663rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 231 places from #1,432 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 127 boys named Deshawn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #408, reached in 1994. The most boys given the name in a single year was 563, in 1997. For comparison, it was #1,001 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Deshawn in 64 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 5 babies. In all, 17,257 US babies have been given the name, 6.9% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 5,225 babies named Deshawn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,573 US boys were named Deshawn; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 234. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,081 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Deshawn ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #853 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Deshaun (5,949 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dyshawn, Dishawn and Deyshawn 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: Dyshawn (296), Dishawn (201), Deyshawn (46), Deashawn (31), Deeshawn (13), Deshown (6).
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 Deshawn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 8 | #853 | #645 |
| Indiana | 6 | #881 | #681 |
| Virginia | 6 | #998 | #682 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,250 | #635 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,426 | #1,306 |
| Florida | 5 | #1,901 | #751 |
| California | 6 | #2,259 | #1,388 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 100 | #1,663 |
| 2024 | — | — | 127 | #1,432 |
| 2023 | — | — | 122 | #1,474 |
| 2022 | — | — | 130 | #1,415 |
| 2021 | — | — | 137 | #1,351 |
| 2020 | — | — | 179 | #1,106 |
| 2019 | — | — | 177 | #1,113 |
| 2018 | — | — | 234 | #918 |
| 2017 | — | — | 187 | #1,061 |
| 2016 | — | — | 180 | #1,091 |
| 2015 | — | — | 204 | #1,001 |
| 2014 | — | — | 249 | #873 |
| 2013 | — | — | 264 | #820 |
| 2012 | — | — | 307 | #747 |
| 2011 | — | — | 307 | #738 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,478 | 370 | #651 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,043 | 351 | #691 |
| 2008 | — | — | 422 | #595 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,377 | 448 | #574 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,862 | 511 | #508 |
| 2005 | — | — | 381 | #592 |
| 2004 | — | — | 422 | #546 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,438 | 468 | #514 |
| 2002 | — | — | 396 | #562 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,337 | 444 | #510 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,705 | 480 | #487 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,615 | 445 | #493 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,681 | 543 | #426 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,405 | 563 | #411 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,119 | 485 | #452 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,131 | 517 | #444 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,554 | 560 | #408 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,900 | 502 | #438 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,603 | 494 | #447 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,384 | 474 | #453 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,931 | 409 | #481 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,594 | 313 | #550 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,611 | 289 | #539 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,196 | 239 | #586 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,392 | 225 | #591 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,758 | 204 | #612 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,761 | 176 | #651 |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,926 | 170 | #656 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,549 | 143 | #724 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,163 | 143 | #724 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,746 | 159 | #688 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,013 | 173 | #651 |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,279 | 178 | #625 |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,468 | 164 | #659 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,743 | 138 | #712 |
| 1975 | 48 | #1,885 | 162 | #638 |
| 1974 | 56 | #1,654 | 158 | #643 |
| 1973 | 78 | #1,304 | 133 | #694 |
| 1972 | 51 | #1,728 | 100 | #798 |
| 1971 | 82 | #1,316 | 78 | #922 |
| 1970 | 58 | #1,622 | 53 | #1,135 |
| 1969 | 41 | #1,958 | 31 | #1,449 |
| 1968 | 39 | #1,919 | 29 | #1,461 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,569 | 9 | #2,823 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,691 | 11 | #2,511 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,170 | — | — |
| 1964 | — | — | 7 | #3,358 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,622 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,808 | — | — |
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).