girls:
6 births since 1981
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
209 births since 1975
#4377 (4th percentile)
overall:
215 births since 1975
#7524 (3rd percentile)
The name Vashaun is the #7,524 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 215 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 2.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,377 (4.5% percentile) for all time with 209 births since 1975. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1981.
Vashaun first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (1975 for boys and 1981 for girls). Birth data for Vashaun is available in 26 out of the 46 years between 1975 and 2020 (26 years for boys and 1 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 Vashaun has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Vashaun reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #780) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
For girls, Vashaun reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #776) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1981.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vashaun".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Vashaun. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.1% confident that Vashaun is pronounced as vuh-SHAWN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is vuh-SHOWN, at 18.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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