Shavon

Where Shavon comes from

A 20th-century phonetic spelling of Irish Siobhán.
— Wiktionary's entry for Shavon
  • Irish
Along the way
  1. 1958
    First appearance
    #6,103 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1979
    Peak, #531
    358 babies named Shavon — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1984
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #953.
  4. 1994
    Shavon Shields born
    Danish basketball player
  5. 1995
    Shavon John-Brown born
    Grenadian footballer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Irish.
Namesakes
  • Shavon Shields · Danish basketball player, born 1994
  • Shavon John-Brown · Grenadian footballer, born 1995
  • Shavon Revel · American football player, born 2001

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.