girls:
166 births since 1966
#5550 (3rd percentile)
boys:
2.5k births since 1966
#2515 (45th percentile)
overall:
2.7k births since 1966
#5187 (33rd percentile)
The name Deshon is the #5,187 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,693 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 33.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,515 (45.1% percentile) for all time with 2,527 births since 1966. For girls, it ranks #5,550 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 166 births since 1966.
Deshon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 .
The name Deshon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.8% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1971, the name was more popular for girls (51.7% girls from 1966 to 1970), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (96.0% boys from 1971 to 2023).
For boys, Deshon reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 11.3% percentile (ranked #703) with 47 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 47 births per million (ranked 11.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Deshon ranks #896 for boys (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 23.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Deshon reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #727) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Deshon".
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Our model has identified 17 different pronunciations for the name Deshon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 18.5% confident that Deshon is pronounced as DEH-shuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is deh-SHAWN, at 16.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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