girls:
541 births since 1968
#5175 (9th percentile)
boys:
8.8k births since 1968
#1260 (73rd percentile)
overall:
9.3k births since 1968
#2790 (64th percentile)
The name Dashawn is the #2,790 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,312 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 63.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 63.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,260 (72.5% percentile) for all time with 8,771 births since 1968. For girls, it ranks #5,175 (9.4% percentile) for all time with 541 births since 1968.
Dashawn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 .
The name Dashawn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.2% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1974, the name was more popular for girls (53.5% girls from 1968 to 1973), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (94.9% boys from 1974 to 2023).
For boys, Dashawn reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 39.2% percentile (ranked #472) with 183 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 183 births per million (ranked 39.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2001, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dashawn ranks #857 for boys (5.9% percentile) with 32 births per million, which is 17.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dashawn reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #824) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 16 births per million (ranked 2.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dashawn".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Dashawn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.5% confident that Dashawn is pronounced as duh-SHAWN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is duh-SHAHN, at 32.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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