Deshawn

girls:

1.2k births since 1962

#4535 (21st percentile)

boys:

15.8k births since 1964

#924 (80th percentile)

overall:

17k births since 1962

#1977 (74th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Deshawn".

1962 2023 19622023

Key Statistics

Total Births
1,183
Peak Births
82
Peak Year
1971
First Recorded
1962
Peak Percentile
10.0%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#667
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
15,839
Peak Births
563
Peak Year
1997
First Recorded
1964
Peak Percentile
51.5%
Current Percentile
12.6%
Peak Rank
#385
Current Rank
#796
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Deshawn

Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Deshawn. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 30.6% confident that Deshawn is pronounced as dih-SHAHN. The next most likely pronunciation is dih-SHAWN, at 25.0% confidence.

deh-SHAWN (2 syllables)
11.1% confidence
D EH0 SH AO1 N
dee-SHAWN (2 syllables)
5.6% confidence
D IY0 SH AO1 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Deshawn. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Deshawn, please vote using the thumbs up button.

duh-SHAHN (2 syllables)
10 names 17.7k births
D AH0 SH AA1 N
day-SHAWN (2 syllables)
1 name 9.3k births
D EY0 SH AO1 N

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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like D IH0 SH AA1 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.