girls:
422 births since 1965
#5294 (7th percentile)
boys:
931 births since 1968
#3660 (20th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1965
#6390 (17th percentile)
The name Roshawn is the #6,390 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,353 recorded births since 1965. This represents the 17.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,660 (20.1% percentile) for all time with 931 births since 1968. For girls, it ranks #5,294 (7.4% percentile) for all time with 422 births since 1965.
Roshawn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1965 (1965 for girls and 1968 for boys). Birth data for Roshawn is available in 58 out of the 59 years between 1965 and 2023 (53 years for boys and 31 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 Roshawn has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (68.8% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Roshawn were boys. Interestingly, until around 1977, the name was more popular for girls (65.8% girls from 1965 to 1976), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (78.7% boys from 1977 to 2023).
For boys, Roshawn reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 3.8% percentile (ranked #631) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 18 births per million (ranked 3.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Roshawn ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 26.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Roshawn reached its peak popularity in 1969, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #742) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.6% 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 "Roshawn".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Roshawn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.6% confident that Roshawn is pronounced as ROH-shawn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is roh-SHAWN, at 26.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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