girls:
12 births since 1973
#5704 (0th percentile)
boys:
253 births since 1971
#4333 (5th percentile)
overall:
265 births since 1971
#7474 (3rd percentile)
The name Deshan is the #7,474 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 265 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 3.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,333 (5.5% percentile) for all time with 253 births since 1971. For girls, it ranks #5,704 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 1973.
Deshan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for boys and 1973 for girls). Birth data for Deshan is available in 37 out of the 53 years between 1971 and 2023 (36 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Deshan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Deshan reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #667) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Deshan ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 38.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Deshan reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #739) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1975.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Deshan".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Deshan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.6% confident that Deshan is pronounced as deh-SHAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEH-shuhn, at 34.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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