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DeShawn
Say it: deh-SHAWN
Meaning
A modern African American coinage combining the prefix De- with Shawn, from Irish Seán (John).
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Part of the De- and Da- prefix fashion of the 1970s to 1990s.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 1990s
In the United States
- 16,625 babies given this name since 1962
- At its height in 1994, about 1 in 3,400 boys
- 174 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Deshawn, Dashawn, Deshaun
Famous bearers
- DeShawn Stevenson, basketball player
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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