Meaning not yet researched.
Dezmond: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 72 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,065 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,065 in 1997; #2,060 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dezmond in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,060 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #1,065.
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Dezmond: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 72 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,065 in 1997 · most boys in one year: 135 (2009).
In 2025, 72 US boys were named Dezmond, making it the 2,060th most common boys’ name of the year, down 222 places from #1,838 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 88 boys named Dezmond in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,065, reached in 1997. The most boys given the name in a single year was 135, in 2009. For comparison, it was #1,370 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dezmond in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 6 babies. In all, 3,632 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,182 babies named Dezmond.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 999 US boys were named Dezmond; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 120. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dezmond ranked highest in Indiana in 2025, at #882 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Desmond (40,264 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dez 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: Dez (358).
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 Dezmond 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 6 | #882 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,039 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #2,349 | #979 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 72 | #2,060 |
| 2024 | — | — | 88 | #1,838 |
| 2023 | — | — | 88 | #1,818 |
| 2022 | — | — | 108 | #1,613 |
| 2021 | — | — | 96 | #1,702 |
| 2020 | — | — | 88 | #1,749 |
| 2019 | — | — | 105 | #1,584 |
| 2018 | — | — | 116 | #1,492 |
| 2017 | — | — | 118 | #1,450 |
| 2016 | — | — | 120 | #1,446 |
| 2015 | — | — | 127 | #1,370 |
| 2014 | — | — | 118 | #1,423 |
| 2013 | — | — | 133 | #1,299 |
| 2012 | — | — | 117 | #1,422 |
| 2011 | — | — | 117 | #1,416 |
| 2010 | — | — | 111 | #1,472 |
| 2009 | — | — | 135 | #1,298 |
| 2008 | — | — | 94 | #1,644 |
| 2007 | — | — | 83 | #1,773 |
| 2006 | — | — | 97 | #1,537 |
| 2005 | — | — | 83 | #1,639 |
| 2004 | — | — | 89 | #1,507 |
| 2003 | — | — | 83 | #1,541 |
| 2002 | — | — | 99 | #1,335 |
| 2001 | — | — | 99 | #1,319 |
| 2000 | — | — | 104 | #1,262 |
| 1999 | — | — | 98 | #1,261 |
| 1998 | — | — | 108 | #1,164 |
| 1997 | — | — | 119 | #1,065 |
| 1996 | — | — | 68 | #1,483 |
| 1995 | — | — | 64 | #1,497 |
| 1994 | — | — | 66 | #1,458 |
| 1993 | — | — | 58 | #1,561 |
| 1992 | — | — | 69 | #1,361 |
| 1991 | — | — | 40 | #1,927 |
| 1990 | — | — | 45 | #1,760 |
| 1989 | — | — | 46 | #1,689 |
| 1988 | — | — | 32 | #2,005 |
| 1987 | — | — | 17 | #2,981 |
| 1986 | — | — | 18 | #2,814 |
| 1985 | — | — | 25 | #2,185 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,572 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #3,946 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,158 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,627 |
| 1980 | — | — | 11 | #3,679 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,530 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,058 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,308 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #4,967 |
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).