How popular is “Deshawn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Deshawn” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Deshawn” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Deshawn” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Deshawn” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Deshawn” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Deshawn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Deshawn” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1962	5	0.000001239	5		100%
1963	9	0.000002274	9		100%
1964	7	0.000001801		7	-100%
1965	16	0.000004413	16		100%
1966	32	0.000009207	21	11	31%
1967	32	0.000009426	23	9	44%
1968	68	0.000020128	39	29	15%
1969	72	0.000020717	41	31	14%
1970	111	0.000030778	58	53	5%
1971	160	0.000046615	82	78	3%
1972	151	0.000048043	51	100	-32%
1973	211	0.00006994	78	133	-26%
1974	214	0.000070395	56	158	-48%
1975	210	0.00006955	48	162	-54%
1976	166	0.000054708	28	138	-66%
1977	199	0.000062648	35	164	-65%
1978	218	0.000068686	40	178	-63%
1979	201	0.000060415	28	173	-72%
1980	180	0.000052257	21	159	-77%
1981	170	0.000049142	27	143	-68%
1982	166	0.000047321	23	143	-72%
1983	199	0.000057459	29	170	-71%
1984	197	0.000056467	21	176	-79%
1985	226	0.000063321	22	204	-81%
1986	243	0.000068314	18	225	-85%
1987	268	0.000074329	29	239	-78%
1988	315	0.000085249	26	289	-83%
1989	341	0.000088699	28	313	-84%
1990	435	0.000110058	26	409	-88%
1991	506	0.000129901	32	474	-87%
1992	524	0.000136413	30	494	-89%
1993	529	0.000140308	27	502	-90%
1994	591	0.000158971	31	560	-90%
1995	542	0.000148	25	517	-91%
1996	504	0.000138188	19	485	-92%
1997	575	0.000158588	12	563	-96%
1998	566	0.000153879	23	543	-92%
1999	453	0.000122636	8	445	-96%
2000	493	0.000130427	13	480	-95%
2001	453	0.000121013	9	444	-96%
2002	396	0.000105931		396	-100%
2003	473	0.000124398	5	468	-98%
2004	422	0.000110445		422	-100%
2005	381	0.000099094		381	-100%
2006	516	0.000130429	5	511	-98%
2007	453	0.000113316	5	448	-98%
2008	421	0.000107107		421	-100%
2009	356	0.000093189	5	351	-97%
2010	376	0.000101739	6	370	-97%
2011	307	0.00008393		307	-100%
2012	307	0.00008394		307	-100%
2013	264	0.000072415		264	-100%
2014	249	0.000067182		249	-100%
2015	204	0.000055122		204	-100%
2016	180	0.000049064		180	-100%
2017	187	0.00005229		187	-100%
2018	234	0.000066555		234	-100%
2019	177	0.000050995		177	-100%
2020	179	0.000053584		179	-100%
2021	137	0.000040437		137	-100%
2022	130	0.000038426		130	-100%
2023	121	0.000036543		121	-100%
2024	125	0.000037554		125	-100%

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