Desean
#4,428 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Desean has been given to 4,042 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #4,428 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 157 recorded.
Babies named Desean, 2025
1 in 144,000
Desean over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Desean?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 144,000
- 23 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 74,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,428
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 99,910 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Desean sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Desean. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Deseans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Desean was born before 2001 — so the typical Desean is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 28.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 52.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 4,031
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 28.3% of all recorded uses (1,139).
Is Desean rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +311
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,870
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,571
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.29×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 14.6%
- Peak was 2010 (157)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 14.2% average annual change
Spellings of Desean
Desean is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 54.9% against Desean's 0.52%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Desean is used
Across 1910–2025, Desean was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 62,769 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Maryland1 in 25,000
- 2District of Columbia1 in 33,333
- 3Florida1 in 33,333
- 4Michigan1 in 33,333
- 5Virginia1 in 33,333
- 6California1 in 50,000
- 7Georgia1 in 50,000
- 8Illinois1 in 50,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Desean has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Desean around the world
Where Desean ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2002–2008#4,432in 2008
- Canada2014–2014#2,374in 2014
- South Australia2012–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Desean by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Desean
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Desean
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Desean, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Desean
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.