girls:
33 births since 1974
#5683 (1st percentile)
boys:
493 births since 1973
#4093 (11th percentile)
overall:
526 births since 1973
#7213 (7th percentile)
The name Vashawn is the #7,213 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 526 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 6.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,093 (10.7% percentile) for all time with 493 births since 1973. For girls, it ranks #5,683 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 33 births since 1974.
Vashawn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for boys and 1974 for girls). Birth data for Vashawn is available in 46 out of the 47 years between 1973 and 2019 (46 years for boys and 5 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 Vashawn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Vashawn reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #643) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
For girls, Vashawn reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #763) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1982.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vashawn".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Vashawn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.1% confident that Vashawn is pronounced as vuh-SHAWN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is vah-SHAHN, at 33.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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