# DeShawn (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/deshawn/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Dashawn, Deshaun, Deshawn |
| US babies named this | 17,257 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 16,074 / 1,183 (7% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 86, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

De- + Shawn. African-American coinage with the prefix De as in DeAndre, DeAngelo, and other names popular in the 1990s + Shawn.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 30 | 3,603 |
| 1993 | 27 | 3,900 |
| 1994 | 31 | 3,554 |
| 1995 | 25 | 4,131 |
| 1996 | 19 | 5,119 |
| 1997 | 12 | 7,405 |
| 1998 | 23 | 4,681 |
| 1999 | 8 | 10,615 |
| 2000 | 13 | 7,705 |
| 2001 | 9 | 10,337 |
| 2003 | 5 | 16,438 |
| 2006 | 5 | 17,862 |
| 2007 | 5 | 18,377 |
| 2009 | 5 | 18,043 |
| 2010 | 6 | 15,478 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 307 | 738 |
| 2012 | 307 | 747 |
| 2013 | 264 | 820 |
| 2014 | 249 | 873 |
| 2015 | 204 | 1,001 |
| 2016 | 180 | 1,091 |
| 2017 | 187 | 1,061 |
| 2018 | 234 | 918 |
| 2019 | 177 | 1,113 |
| 2020 | 179 | 1,106 |
| 2021 | 137 | 1,351 |
| 2022 | 130 | 1,415 |
| 2023 | 122 | 1,474 |
| 2024 | 127 | 1,432 |
| 2025 | 100 | 1,663 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | 2,254 |
| 2003 | 5 | 2,470 |
| 2004 | 6 | 2,304 |
| 2005 | 7 | 2,174 |
| 2006 | 10 | 1,744 |
| 2007 | 5 | 3,095 |
| 2008 | 7 | 2,507 |
| 2009 | 8 | 2,318 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2014 | 5 | 3,362 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2016 | 7 | 2,804 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |

## People named DeShawn

- DeShawn Stevenson, American basketball player (born 1981)
- DeShawn Sims, American basketball player (b. 1988)
- Deshawn Stephens, American basketball player (born 1989)
- Pierre Jackson, American basketball player (born 1991)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.