Marshawn
Masculine · “God is gracious”
Marshawn is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 2,674 boys against 78 girls since 1880.
Marshawn joins a Mar- front to Shawn — the Irish of John — so the Hebrew behind it says God is gracious.
How old is the name Marshawn?
Marshawn first appears in US birth records in 1972 — 53 years ago. The typical Marshawn alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 2,600 people named Marshawn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Marshawn most popular?
Marshawn peaked in 2015, reaching #1346 nationally. Today it ranks #2676, 1,330 places below that high. See the whole 2015 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yochanan to Marshawn
Our story of Marshawn
Our story of Marshawn is a story of a prefix and one of the world's most-traveled names. Yochanan gave Greek Ioannes, Latin Iohannes, French Jean, Irish Seán and English Shawn — no name has produced more forms. American families from the 1960s took Mar-, De-, La- and Ja- as free prefixes and attached them: Marshawn, DeShawn, LaShawn. The back half has three thousand years; the front has sixty.
Meaning
God is gracious
The Shawn element descends from the Irish Seán, from Jean and ultimately the Hebrew Yochanan, 'the Lord is gracious'. The Mar- prefix is a twentieth-century American formation. The Hebrew is documented; the compound is American.
How the name formed
- Yochanan
- Seán
- Shawn
- Marshawn
Related forms: Marshaun · Seán
Pronouncing Marshawn
mar-SHAWN
Two syllables, stress on the second. Marshawn and Marshaun are said identically.
Nicknames for Marshawn
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1972
- Most boys named
- 2015130 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1346reached in 2015
- Change vs 2024
- +41.2%48 in 2025, from 34
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Marshawn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marshaun in English — spelling variant
- Seán in Irish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Illinois, Ohio, California.
Marshawns among us
people named Marshawn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 35,585 born in 2025 was named Marshawn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Rajesh test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Marshawn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rajesh climbed just as high around 1976, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rajesh's path sketches the road Marshawn is walking now.
Marshawn sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Marshawn is headed
Marshawn is easing off slowly — about 29% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Marshawn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Marshawn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The back half belongs to the most productive name family in European history.
- Shawn is available as a short form with a large record.
- The end stress gives it a strong rhythm against a front-stressed surname.
- The prefix does not function grammatically as it does in French.
- Several spellings of the compound are in circulation.
- It is period-coded to the 1980s and 1990s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Marshawns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,600 people named Marshawn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Marshawn in 2025?
- Marshawn ranks #2676 among US boy names in 2025, with 48 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Marshawn?
- About 1 in every 35,585 US boys born in 2025 was named Marshawn — 48 in all.
- Will my child share the name Marshawn with classmates?
- Marshawn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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