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)
The name Deshawn is the #1,977 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,022 recorded births since 1962. This represents the 74.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #924 (79.9% percentile) for all time with 15,839 births since 1964. For girls, it ranks #4,535 (20.6% percentile) for all time with 1,183 births since 1962.
Deshawn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1962 (1962 for girls and 1964 for boys).
The name Deshawn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.1% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1972, the name was more popular for girls (57.4% girls from 1962 to 1971), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (94.6% boys from 1972 to 2023).
For boys, Deshawn reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 51.5% percentile (ranked #385) with 282 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 282 births per million (ranked 51.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Deshawn ranks #796 for boys (12.6% percentile) with 66 births per million, which is 23.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Deshawn reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 10.0% percentile (ranked #692) with 47 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 50 births per million (ranked 9.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Deshawn".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Deshawn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.6% confident that Deshawn is pronounced as dih-SHAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dih-SHAWN, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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