boys:
717 births since 1991
#3870 (16th percentile)
overall:
717 births since 1991
#7022 (9th percentile)
The name Dreshawn is the #7,022 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 717 recorded births since 1991. This represents the 9.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,870 (15.6% percentile) for all time with 717 births since 1991.
Dreshawn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1991 (first recorded for boys in 1991).
For boys, Dreshawn reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 5.5% percentile (ranked #780) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 24 births per million (ranked 5.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dreshawn ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 27.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dreshawn".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Dreshawn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.0% confident that Dreshawn is pronounced as DREH-shawn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DREH-shahn, at 16.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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