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Desean

The boy's name Desean has been in the national records since 1968, with 4,042 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 4,396th. About 3,900 Deseans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Desean boys named Desean

By the numbers

Total US births
4,042
Estimated living today
3,900
Median age today
24
Peak year
2010
Best rank
1,168th
Rank in 2025
4,396th
First recorded
1968
Girls / boys
11 / 4,031

How old the living Deseans are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,042 babies given the name since 1968, about 3,900 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 1,300 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Deseans

People named Desean with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Desean is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Desean is most concentrated in Maryland (3.1×), Virginia (2.9×), the District of Columbia (2.4×), Michigan (2.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2010

The most popular boys’ names the year Desean peaked:

All the names of 2010

Desean elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Desean 6 4,432nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Desean against another name

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.