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Deshaun

#3,462 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Deshawn

Deshaun has been given to 5,949 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #3,462 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 233 recorded.

Babies named Deshaun, 2025

1 in 100,000

Deshaun over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Deshaun: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Deshawn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Deshaun means

Deshaun is a variant of Deshawn.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Deshawn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,718 boys were recorded with the name Deshaun between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 233 in 2006; its best national rank was #802 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,098 in 2020 to #3,462 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,731 in 2015 to #3,462 in 2025.

In the United States, 231 girls were recorded with the name Deshaun between 1967 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1979; its best national rank was #4,464 in 1979.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Deshaun?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 51,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,462
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Deshaun sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deshaun. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deshauns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Deshaun was born before 2001 — so the typical Deshaun is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,718
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 32.6% of all recorded uses (1,865).

Is Deshaun 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
−343
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,364
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,731
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.37×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.2%
Peak was 2006 (233)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#802
1996

Spellings of Deshaun

Deshaun is not the most common spelling — Shaun is, with 51.7% against Deshaun's 4.2%.

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 Deshaun is used

Across 2016–2025, Deshaun was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 32,015 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

15 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 20,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 20,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 25,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 25,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 33,333
  6. 6Arizona1 in 50,000
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 50,000
  8. 8Missouri1 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.

Deshaun around the world

Where Deshaun 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 & Wales
    2000–2017
    #3,996
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1994–2017
    #2,308
    in 2017

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Deshaun

People whose public names include Deshaun, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Deshaun in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Deshaun. Linked forms have their own page here.

DeshawnDe'Shaun

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Deshaun by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,462
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,364
Best rank ever
#802
1996
Peak year
2006
233 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,718
Count in 2025
33

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,464
1979
Peak year
1979
16 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
1998
All-time count
231
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Deshaun

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DestinDeshawnDeseanDeshonRashaunDashaunDesmondKeshaunDeshunDesmonTyshaunAntwaunJashaunLashaunDesiDestynDestryTayshaunDestinyDesiderioMarshaunTreshaunJawaunDessiah

Names with a curve like Deshaun

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Deshaun, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AlexandreAlexandroMaximillianMarquezTyshawnJoseluisDontaeBrennonJarenDallinJuancarlosJamarcus

Sibling names for Deshaun

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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