girls:
178 births since 1970
#5538 (3rd percentile)
boys:
3.9k births since 1969
#1965 (57th percentile)
overall:
4.1k births since 1969
#4265 (45th percentile)
The name Rayshawn is the #4,265 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,121 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 44.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 44.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,965 (57.1% percentile) for all time with 3,943 births since 1969. For girls, it ranks #5,538 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 178 births since 1970.
Rayshawn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (1969 for boys and 1970 for girls).
The name Rayshawn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Rayshawn reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 15.6% percentile (ranked #669) with 64 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 64 births per million (ranked 15.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Rayshawn ranks #875 for boys (4.0% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 34.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Rayshawn reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #811) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% 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 "Rayshawn".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Rayshawn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.6% confident that Rayshawn is pronounced as RAY-shawn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RAY-shahn, at 30.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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