Deshawn
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 185 babies a year in the US.
Deshawn by the numbers
Deshawn was given to 185 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 563 babies in 1997, making it a 1990s name.
What we can tell you about Deshawn
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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Other names in the records within a letter or two of Deshawn. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Deshawn
Names that are said the same way as Deshawn, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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