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Deshanti

Gender
Girl
Say it
duh-SHAN-tee
Origin
Modern

Deshanti is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Deshanti come from?

Modern: modern coinage, perhaps De- prefix + Shanti

Is Deshanti a girl's or a boy's name?

Deshanti is a girls' name.

How popular is Deshanti in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2002, with 33 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.

Half of all the girls named Deshanti in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.

2002Busiest: 33 in 20022013
Deshanti in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20135#16,542
20120–
20110–
20100–
20099#11,454
20089#11,594
200711#10,125
20060–
20058#11,828
20046#14,172
200318#6,294
200233#3,885

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Deshanti: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/deshanti, updated 20 October 2026.