Marshawn
Marshawn was given to 48 boys in 2025, #2,702 among boys’ names; 2,752 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,690 Americans named Marshawn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marshawn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marshawn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marshawn is “a male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marshawn?
#2,702 among boys’ names, 2025
Marshawn fell from #1,350 in 2015 to #2,702 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 67.8 to 28.1 per million.
130 babies in 2015, the peak
Marshawn peaked in 2015, when 130 boys were given it, #1,350 among boys’ names. The 48 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #2,702 | 28.1 |
| 2024 | 34 | #3,432 | 19.7 |
| 2023 | 54 | #2,500 | 31.6 |
| 2022 | 53 | #2,579 | 30.4 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,208 | 36.6 |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,037 | 40.6 |
| 2019 | 77 | #1,927 | 42.9 |
| 2018 | 76 | #1,950 | 41.8 |
| 2017 | 88 | #1,763 | 47.5 |
| 2016 | 103 | #1,595 | 54.3 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 130 | #1,350 | 67.8 |
| 2014 | 100 | #1,585 | 52.1 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,130 | 33.3 |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,058 | 35.3 |
| 2011 | 90 | #1,673 | 47.4 |
| 2010 | 77 | #1,875 | 40.1 |
| 2009 | 77 | #1,878 | 38.8 |
| 2008 | 83 | #1,797 | 40.7 |
| 2007 | 100 | #1,575 | 48.2 |
| 2006 | 67 | #2,001 | 32.6 |
| 2005 | 76 | #1,744 | 38.1 |
| 2004 | 71 | #1,776 | 35.8 |
| 2003 | 71 | #1,726 | 35.9 |
| 2002 | 63 | #1,825 | 32.4 |
| 2001 | 65 | #1,754 | 33.5 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,110 | 24.4 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,046 | 24.5 |
| 1998 | 58 | #1,754 | 30.3 |
| 1997 | 48 | #1,921 | 25.5 |
| 1996 | 60 | #1,624 | 31.7 |
| 1995 | 53 | #1,692 | 27.8 |
| 1994 | 51 | #1,741 | 26.4 |
| 1993 | 41 | #1,983 | 20.9 |
| 1992 | 44 | #1,863 | 22.0 |
| 1991 | 42 | #1,875 | 20.8 |
| 1990 | 37 | #2,031 | 18.0 |
| 1989 | 38 | #1,939 | 19.0 |
| 1988 | 25 | #2,408 | 13.1 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,787 | 10.2 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,744 | 10.3 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,534 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,207 | 7.8 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,633 | 10.0 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,780 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,980 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 16 | #2,911 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,288 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,751 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,861 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,898 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,174 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,478 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,354 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,084 | 6.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Marshawn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,752 Americans recorded as Marshawn, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 48 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Marshawn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marshawn, and how old are they?
2,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,752 Americans ever recorded as Marshawn. The median Marshawn alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,845 people named Marshawn (122 women and girls, 1,723 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,404 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 137 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 506 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 953 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Marshawn born?
The states with the most babies named Marshawn are Illinois, California and North Carolina, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 5 | #1,422 | 5.3× |
| California | 5 | #2,671 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,403 | 0.2× |
Where Marshawn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marshawn is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1969 it was given 5.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Marshawn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Marshawn
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 Marshawn and names like it
- Compare Marshawn and KeelanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMarshawn peaked in 2015.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marshawn since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Marshawn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Marshawn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Marshawn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.