girls:
52 births since 1970
#5664 (1st percentile)
boys:
228 births since 1976
#4358 (5th percentile)
overall:
280 births since 1970
#7459 (4th percentile)
The name Tishawn is the #7,459 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 280 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 3.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,358 (4.9% percentile) for all time with 228 births since 1976. For girls, it ranks #5,664 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 52 births since 1970.
Tishawn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for girls and 1976 for boys). Birth data for Tishawn is available in 33 out of the 52 years between 1970 and 2021 (27 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 Tishawn has been given predominantly to boys, with 81.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2021, 100.0% of babies named Tishawn were boys. Interestingly, until around 1993, the name was more popular for girls (61.2% girls from 1970 to 1992), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 1993 to 2021).
For boys, Tishawn reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #793) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Tishawn reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #781) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tishawn".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Tishawn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.7% confident that Tishawn is pronounced as tih-SHAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is tih-SHAWN, at 23.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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