girls:
78 births since 1969
#5638 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.6k births since 1972
#2482 (46th percentile)
overall:
2.7k births since 1969
#5205 (33rd percentile)
The name Marshawn is the #5,205 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,668 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 32.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 32.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,482 (45.9% percentile) for all time with 2,590 births since 1972. For girls, it ranks #5,638 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 78 births since 1969.
Marshawn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (1969 for girls and 1972 for boys).
The name Marshawn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.1% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1974, the name was more popular for girls (56.3% girls from 1969 to 1973), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (98.1% boys from 1974 to 2023).
For boys, Marshawn reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 13.8% percentile (ranked #780) with 64 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 64 births per million (ranked 13.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Marshawn ranks #862 for boys (5.4% percentile) with 29 births per million, which is 46.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Marshawn reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #765) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marshawn".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Marshawn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.5% confident that Marshawn is pronounced as MAHR-shawn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAHR-SHAWN, at 15.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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