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Dezmond

#2,060 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Dezmond has been given to 3,632 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #2,060 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 135 recorded.

Babies named Dezmond, 2025

1 in 46,000

Dezmond over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dezmond: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dezmond means

Dezmond is a given name.

The naming story behind Dezmond

Wikidata records Dezmond as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q19967842, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,632 boys were recorded with the name Dezmond between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 135 in 2009; its best national rank was #1,063 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,749 in 2020 to #2,060 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,370 in 2015 to #2,060 in 2025.

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 Dezmond?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 46,000
72 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 23,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,060
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
31,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dezmond 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 31,916 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dezmond. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dezmonds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dezmond was born before 2009 — so the typical Dezmond is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,632
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.5% of all recorded uses (1,182).

Is Dezmond 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
−222
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−311
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−690
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.3%
Peak was 2009 (135)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,063
1997

Spellings of Dezmond

Dezmond is not the most common spelling — Desmond is, with 46.5% against Dezmond'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 Dezmond is used

Across 2016–2025, Dezmond was most concentrated in Colorado — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 25,863 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Colorado1 in 11,111
  2. 2Washington1 in 11,111
  3. 3Utah1 in 12,500
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 14,286
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 14,286
  6. 6Texas1 in 16,667
  7. 7California1 in 20,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 20,000

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.

Dezmond around the world

Where Dezmond 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.

  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dezmond by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,060
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 311
Best rank ever
#1,063
1997
Peak year
2009
135 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,632
Count in 2025
72

Names similar to Dezmond

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

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Names with a curve like Dezmond

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

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Sibling names for Dezmond

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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