girls:
709 births since 1966
#5007 (12th percentile)
boys:
6.3k births since 1967
#1483 (68th percentile)
overall:
7k births since 1966
#3214 (58th percentile)
The name Rashawn is the #3,214 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,039 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 58.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,483 (67.7% percentile) for all time with 6,330 births since 1967. For girls, it ranks #5,007 (12.4% percentile) for all time with 709 births since 1966.
Rashawn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (1966 for girls and 1967 for boys).
The name Rashawn has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Rashawn were boys. Interestingly, until around 1974, the name was more popular for girls (57.2% girls from 1966 to 1973), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (91.3% boys from 1974 to 2023).
For boys, Rashawn reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 29.7% percentile (ranked #541) with 118 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 123 births per million (ranked 29.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Rashawn ranks #883 for boys (3.1% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 14.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Rashawn reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #755) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 21 births per million (ranked 3.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rashawn".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Rashawn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.3% confident that Rashawn is pronounced as ruh-SHAWN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ruh-SHAHN, at 28.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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