Deshon
#5,920 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Deshon has been given to 2,718 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #5,920 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 94 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.
Babies named Deshon, 2025
1 in 221,000
Deshon 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Deshon over time
In 2025, Deshon went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Deshon?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 221,000
- 15 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 114,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,920
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 153,194 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Deshon 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deshon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Deshons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Deshon was born before 1996 — so the typical Deshon is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 32.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 37.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,552
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 32.3% of all recorded uses (825).
Is Deshon 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
- +1,978
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,772
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,164
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.75×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 16.0%
- Peak was 1997 (94)
- Years since peak
- 28
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.0% average annual change
Spellings of Deshon
Deshon is not the most common spelling — Weston is, with 23.8% against Deshon's 0.80%.
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 Deshon is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Deshon was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 124,038 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 50,000
- 2Illinois1 in 50,000
- 3California1 in 100,000
- 4Florida1 in 100,000
- 5Michigan1 in 100,000
- 6Missouri1 in 100,000
- 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 8Louisiana1 in —
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. Deshon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Deshon is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Deshon was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,215,656 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Michigan1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Deshon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Deshon around the world
Where Deshon 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 & Wales2007–2007#3,589in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Deshon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Deshon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Deshon
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Deshon, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Deshon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.