Meaning not yet researched.
Deshon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,180 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,180 in 1993; #5,923 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Deshon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,923 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #1,180.
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Deshon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,180 in 1993 · most boys in one year: 94 (1997).
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Deshon, making it the 5,923rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,980 places from #7,903 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 10 boys named Deshon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,180, reached in 1993. The most boys given the name in a single year was 94, in 1997. For comparison, it was #4,758 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Deshon in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 15 babies. In all, 2,718 US babies have been given the name, 6.1% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 853 babies named Deshon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 248 US boys were named Deshon; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 38. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Deshaun (5,949 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Deshone, Dishon and Dyshon 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: Deshone (339), Dishon (329), Dyshon (102), Dezhon (21).
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 Deshon 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 | — | — | 15 | #5,923 |
| 2024 | — | — | 10 | #7,903 |
| 2023 | — | — | 20 | #4,922 |
| 2022 | — | — | 31 | #3,634 |
| 2021 | — | — | 27 | #3,935 |
| 2020 | — | — | 36 | #3,150 |
| 2019 | — | — | 24 | #4,255 |
| 2018 | — | — | 38 | #3,064 |
| 2017 | — | — | 23 | #4,358 |
| 2016 | — | — | 24 | #4,225 |
| 2015 | — | — | 20 | #4,758 |
| 2014 | — | — | 32 | #3,393 |
| 2013 | — | — | 31 | #3,433 |
| 2012 | — | — | 46 | #2,643 |
| 2011 | — | — | 43 | #2,764 |
| 2010 | — | — | 52 | #2,414 |
| 2009 | — | — | 43 | #2,812 |
| 2008 | — | — | 52 | #2,438 |
| 2007 | — | — | 49 | #2,542 |
| 2006 | — | — | 61 | #2,129 |
| 2005 | — | — | 57 | #2,137 |
| 2004 | — | — | 60 | #1,997 |
| 2003 | — | — | 57 | #2,013 |
| 2002 | — | — | 56 | #1,980 |
| 2001 | — | — | 61 | #1,825 |
| 2000 | — | — | 64 | #1,746 |
| 1999 | — | — | 62 | #1,696 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,767 | 86 | #1,362 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,340 | 94 | #1,234 |
| 1996 | — | — | 78 | #1,373 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,815 | 91 | #1,214 |
| 1994 | — | — | 88 | #1,233 |
| 1993 | — | — | 90 | #1,180 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,179 | 84 | #1,229 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,734 | 83 | #1,217 |
| 1990 | — | — | 69 | #1,339 |
| 1989 | — | — | 46 | #1,687 |
| 1988 | — | — | 39 | #1,774 |
| 1987 | — | — | 40 | #1,690 |
| 1986 | — | — | 34 | #1,804 |
| 1985 | — | — | 30 | #1,927 |
| 1984 | — | — | 25 | #2,114 |
| 1983 | — | — | 28 | #1,914 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,909 | 27 | #2,016 |
| 1981 | — | — | 20 | #2,433 |
| 1980 | — | — | 31 | #1,821 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,602 | 37 | #1,577 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,831 | 33 | #1,663 |
| 1977 | — | — | 45 | #1,358 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,309 | 41 | #1,393 |
| 1975 | — | — | 34 | #1,538 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,940 | 38 | #1,394 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,518 | 35 | #1,441 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,195 | 29 | #1,610 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,160 | 25 | #1,797 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,463 | 22 | #1,903 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,017 | 11 | #2,736 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,840 | 14 | #2,224 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,700 | 5 | #4,108 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,578 | 6 | #3,626 |
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).