Recorded 1962–2025 · United States
Deshawn was most popular in 1994, when 591 American babies were given the name — ranking #817 that year. In 2025 it ranked #3,530, with 100 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 17,257 people named Deshawn.
Deshawn first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1962, which makes it about 63 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 64 of the 64 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 17,257 American births named Deshawn between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 16,703 are estimated to be alive today.
100 American babies were named Deshawn in 2025, ranking #3,530 that year.
Deshawn is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 123 births a year, against 266 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -54% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Deshawn is mostly a boy’s name — 6.9% of the 17,257 Americans given it were girls and 93.1% were boys. It changed hands: since 1972 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 16,703 Americans named Deshawn are alive today — 97% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 28 years old, and half are between 19 and 36.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
A variant of Shawn · Irish · form of Sean, "God is gracious"
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org