girls:
10 births since 2004
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1997
#3315 (28th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1997
#6432 (17th percentile)
The name Tayshaun is the #6,432 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,310 recorded births since 1997. This represents the 16.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,315 (27.7% percentile) for all time with 1,300 births since 1997. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2004.
Tayshaun first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1997 (1997 for boys and 2004 for girls).
The name Tayshaun has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Tayshaun reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 20.8% percentile (ranked #692) with 87 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 87 births per million (ranked 20.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Tayshaun ranks #902 for boys (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 8.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tayshaun reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #937) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tayshaun".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Tayshaun. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 25.0% confident that Tayshaun is pronounced as tay-SHAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TAY-shawn, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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