Humanverse

Dezmon vs Dezmond

American parents have registered 3,632 Dezmonds since 1880, against 866 Dezmons. Dezmond is still ahead, with 72 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dezmon against Dezmond, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dezmon Dezmond

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 50 years in which either name was published, Dezmond for 49 years and Dezmon for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Dezmon Dezmond
Total US births 8663,632
Most in one year 40135
Babies in 2025 672
Estimated living today 8503,600
Median age today 2216
Peak year 20032009
Best rank 2,545th boys1,298th boys
Rank in 2025 10,695th2,056th
First recorded 19841975
Girls / boys 0 / 8660 / 3,632

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Dezmons alive today are over 22; half the Dezmonds are over 16. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dezmon and Dezmond.