girls:
28 births since 1971
#5688 (0th percentile)
boys:
235 births since 1977
#4351 (5th percentile)
overall:
263 births since 1971
#7476 (3rd percentile)
The name Leshaun is the #7,476 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 263 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 3.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,351 (5.1% percentile) for all time with 235 births since 1977. For girls, it ranks #5,688 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 1971.
Leshaun first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for girls and 1977 for boys). Birth data for Leshaun is available in 34 out of the 47 years between 1971 and 2017 (31 years for boys and 5 years for girls). 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.
The name Leshaun has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2017, 100.0% of babies named Leshaun were boys. Interestingly, until around 1978, the name was more popular for girls (75.0% girls from 1971 to 1977), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (95.8% boys from 1978 to 2017).
For boys, Leshaun reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #662) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
For girls, Leshaun reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #751) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leshaun".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Leshaun. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.3% confident that Leshaun is pronounced as leh-SHAWN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is leh-SHAHN, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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