girls:
43 births since 1970
#5673 (1st percentile)
boys:
428 births since 1976
#4158 (9th percentile)
overall:
471 births since 1970
#7268 (6th percentile)
The name Reshawn is the #7,268 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 471 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 #4,158 (9.3% percentile) for all time with 428 births since 1976. For girls, it ranks #5,673 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 43 births since 1970.
Reshawn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for girls and 1976 for boys). Birth data for Reshawn is available in 43 out of the 50 years between 1970 and 2019 (40 years for boys and 8 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 Reshawn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 90.9% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1977, the name was more popular for girls (76.2% girls from 1970 to 1976), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (94.0% boys from 1977 to 2019).
For boys, Reshawn reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #743) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
For girls, Reshawn reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #772) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Reshawn".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Reshawn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.6% confident that Reshawn is pronounced as ree-SHAWN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is rih-SHAHN, at 23.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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