girls:
5 births since 1973
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
80 births since 1981
#4506 (2nd percentile)
overall:
85 births since 1973
#7654 (1st percentile)
The name Vershawn is the #7,654 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 85 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 1.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,506 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 80 births since 1981. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1973.
Vershawn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for girls and 1981 for boys). Birth data for Vershawn is available in 13 out of the 37 years between 1973 and 2009 (12 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 Vershawn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.1% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1981, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1973 to 1980), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 1981 to 2009).
For boys, Vershawn reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #791) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
For girls, Vershawn reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #740) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1973.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vershawn".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Vershawn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.1% confident that Vershawn is pronounced as ver-SHAWN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ver-SHAHN, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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