girls:
193 births since 1969
#5523 (3rd percentile)
boys:
114 births since 1970
#4472 (2nd percentile)
overall:
307 births since 1969
#7432 (4th percentile)
The name Deshannon is the #7,432 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 307 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 3.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,523 (3.3% percentile) for all time with 193 births since 1969. For boys, it ranks #4,472 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 114 births since 1970.
Deshannon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (1969 for girls and 1970 for boys). Birth data for Deshannon is available in 24 out of the 43 years between 1969 and 2011 (20 years for girls and 16 years for boys). 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 Deshannon has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (62.9% of all recorded births). In 2011, 0.0% of babies named Deshannon were girls. Interestingly, until around 1993, the name was more popular for girls (67.9% girls from 1969 to 1992), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (83.3% boys from 1993 to 2011).
For girls, Deshannon reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #748) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
For boys, Deshannon reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #649) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Deshannon".
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Our model is 86.2% confident that Deshannon is pronounced as deh-SHA-nuhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dih-SHA-nuhn, at 13.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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