girls:
157 births since 1970
#5559 (3rd percentile)
boys:
16 births since 1975
#4570 (0th percentile)
overall:
173 births since 1970
#7566 (2nd percentile)
The name Deshea is the #7,566 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 173 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 2.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,559 (2.7% percentile) for all time with 157 births since 1970. For boys, it ranks #4,570 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1975.
Deshea first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for girls and 1975 for boys). Birth data for Deshea is available in 23 out of the 38 years between 1970 and 2007 (23 years for girls and 3 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 Deshea has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 90.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Deshea reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #850) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
For boys, Deshea reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #659) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Deshea".
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Our model has identified 12 different pronunciations for the name Deshea. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 17.9% confident that Deshea is pronounced as deh-SHAY, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dih-SHEE-uh, at 17.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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