girls:
51 births since 1979
#5665 (1st percentile)
overall:
51 births since 1979
#7688 (1st percentile)
The name Dawnesha is the #7,688 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 51 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 0.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,665 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 51 births since 1979.
Dawnesha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (first recorded for girls in 1979). Birth data for Dawnesha is available in 8 out of the 16 years between 1979 and 1994. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Dawnesha reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #846) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dawnesha".
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Our model has identified 11 different pronunciations for the name Dawnesha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 24.3% confident that Dawnesha is pronounced as DAW-nee-shuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dah-NEH-shuh, at 18.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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