girls:
290 births since 1977
#5426 (5th percentile)
boys:
183 births since 1973
#4403 (4th percentile)
overall:
473 births since 1973
#7266 (6th percentile)
The name Deshay is the #7,266 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 473 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 6.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,426 (5.0% percentile) for all time with 290 births since 1977. For boys, it ranks #4,403 (3.9% percentile) for all time with 183 births since 1973.
Deshay first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for boys and 1977 for girls). Birth data for Deshay is available in 32 out of the 43 years between 1973 and 2015 (28 years for girls and 23 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 Deshay has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (61.3% of all recorded births). In 2015, 100.0% of babies named Deshay were girls. Interestingly, until around 1978, the name was more popular for boys (50.0% boys from 1973 to 1977), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (61.6% girls from 1978 to 2015).
For girls, Deshay reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #830) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
For boys, Deshay reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #761) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Deshay".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Deshay. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Deshay is pronounced as deh-SHAY, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEH-shay, at 19.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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