girls:
40 births since 1969
#5676 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1969
#3326 (27th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1969
#6416 (17th percentile)
The name Deshun is the #6,416 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,327 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 17.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,326 (27.4% percentile) for all time with 1,287 births since 1969. For girls, it ranks #5,676 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 40 births since 1969.
Deshun first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 .
The name Deshun has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Deshun reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 5.8% percentile (ranked #731) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 25 births per million (ranked 5.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Deshun ranks #898 for boys (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 40.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Deshun reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #770) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Deshun".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Deshun. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.1% confident that Deshun is pronounced as deh-SHUHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is deh-SHUEN, at 24.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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