Rashawn

Where Rashawn comes from

Rashawn hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1967
    First appearance
    #3,231 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1972
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1993
    Peak, #658
    243 babies named Rashawn — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1994
    Rashawn Thomas born
    American basketball player
  5. 1999
    Rashawn Slater born
    American football player
  6. 2009
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,413.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Rashawn Slater · American football player, born 1999
  • Rashawn Thomas · American basketball player, born 1994
  • Rashawn Ross · American musician, born 1979
  • Rashawn Jackson · American football running back, born 1987
  • Rashawn Dally · Jamaican-American soccer player, born 1997

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.