girls:
117 births since 1964
#5599 (2nd percentile)
boys:
76 births since 2000
#4510 (2nd percentile)
overall:
193 births since 1964
#7546 (2nd percentile)
The name Mishawn is the #7,546 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 193 recorded births since 1964. This represents the 2.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,599 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 117 births since 1964. For boys, it ranks #4,510 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 76 births since 2000.
Mishawn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1964 (1964 for girls and 2000 for boys). Birth data for Mishawn is available in 28 out of the 56 years between 1964 and 2019 (18 years for girls and 10 years for boys). 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 Mishawn has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (60.6% of all recorded births). In 2019, 0.0% of babies named Mishawn were girls. Interestingly, until around 2000, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1964 to 1999), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 2000 to 2019).
For girls, Mishawn reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #818) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1992.
For boys, Mishawn reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #875) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mishawn".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Mishawn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.8% confident that Mishawn is pronounced as mih-SHAWN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MEE-shawn, at 16.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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