girls:
5 births since 1993
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
840 births since 1988
#3747 (18th percentile)
overall:
845 births since 1988
#6894 (11th percentile)
The name Daeshawn is the #6,894 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 845 recorded births since 1988. This represents the 10.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,747 (18.2% percentile) for all time with 840 births since 1988. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1993.
Daeshawn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1988 (1988 for boys and 1993 for girls).
The name Daeshawn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Daeshawn reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 4.9% percentile (ranked #773) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 22 births per million (ranked 4.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2002, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Daeshawn ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 22.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Daeshawn reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #865) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Daeshawn".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Daeshawn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.8% confident that Daeshawn is pronounced as DAY-shawn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAY-SHAWN, at 20.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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