Dshawn
Dshawn was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,429 among boys’ names; 643 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dshawn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dshawn?
#8,429 among boys’ names, 2025
Dshawn fell from #6,419 in 2015 to #8,429 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 5.3 per million.
37 babies in 2007, the peak
Dshawn peaked in 2007, when 37 boys were given it, #3,101 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,429 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,820 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,084 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,746 | 5.7 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,101 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,441 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,724 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,830 | 6.3 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,419 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,698 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 14 | #5,994 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,700 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,259 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,310 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 19 | #4,976 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 19 | #4,943 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 37 | #3,101 | 17.8 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,622 | 13.6 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,232 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 24 | #3,762 | 12.1 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,099 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 27 | #3,285 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 29 | #3,079 | 14.9 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,804 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 27 | #3,045 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,801 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 22 | #3,277 | 11.7 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,576 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,736 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,789 | 13.5 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,073 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,637 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,850 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,233 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,287 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,570 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,328 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,213 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,302 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,777 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,547 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dshawn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dshawn has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dshawn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dshawn, and how old are they?
An estimated 628 Americans named Dshawn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 17 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 500 people named Dshawn (40 women and girls, 460 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 602 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 12,840 babies since 1880, Dshawn is the fourth most given (5.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 81 babies (11%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dshawn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dshawn and names like it
- Compare Dshawn and DashawnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDshawn peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dshawn since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Dshawn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dshawn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.