Dishawn — boys' name

What the Data Says About Dishawn

The Social Security Administration has registered 201 babies named Dishawn between 1976 and 2015, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dishawn currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 15 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dishawn performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 88 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Dishawn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Dishawn in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dishawn in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 201 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.