girls:
124 births since 1970
#5592 (2nd percentile)
boys:
350 births since 1978
#4236 (8th percentile)
overall:
474 births since 1970
#7265 (6th percentile)
The name Raeshawn is the #7,265 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 474 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 6.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,236 (7.6% percentile) for all time with 350 births since 1978. For girls, it ranks #5,592 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 124 births since 1970.
Raeshawn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for girls and 1978 for boys). Birth data for Raeshawn is available in 41 out of the 54 years between 1970 and 2023 (36 years for boys and 19 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 Raeshawn has been given predominantly to boys, with 73.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Raeshawn were boys. Interestingly, until around 1986, the name was more popular for girls (73.5% girls from 1970 to 1985), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (79.3% boys from 1986 to 2023).
For boys, Raeshawn reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #759) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Raeshawn ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 22.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Raeshawn reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #818) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Raeshawn".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Raeshawn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Raeshawn is pronounced as RAY-shawn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RAY-shahn, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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