Tashawn
Masculine
Tashawn is given to both — 1,527 boys and 273 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Tashawn is four languages deep. Shawn is an English respelling of Seán, which is Irish for John, which came into Irish from French Jehan, which came from Latin Iohannes, from Hebrew Yohanan. The Ta- prefix is American, and it was added to a name that had already been borrowed four times.
How old is the name Tashawn?
Tashawn first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Tashawn alive today was born around 2004, making them about 21 years old. About 1,500 people named Tashawn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tashawn most popular?
Tashawn peaked in 2005, reaching #1546 nationally. Today it ranks #7194, 5,648 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yohanan to Tashawn
Our story of Tashawn
The interesting fact about Tashawn is how much travel is packed into eight letters. Yohanan is Hebrew and biblical. Greek made it Ioannes to fit its own sounds, Latin made it Iohannes, French wore it down to Jehan and then Jean, and the Normans carried that into Ireland, where it became Seán. Irish speakers in America wrote Seán the way English spelling could handle it: Shawn, Shaun, Sean. Then American naming, which builds compounds from a stock of prefixes, put Ta- on the front. Each of those steps was somebody solving a practical problem — how do I write this name in my own alphabet, with my own sounds, so my own neighbors can say it. Tashawn is the fifth solution in a chain of five, and the only one that was not forced by a change of language.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The Ta- prefix carries no meaning; it is a sound element. The base, Shawn, does have one — Hebrew Yohanan, Yahweh is gracious — but a compound is not the sum of its parts, and Tashawn as a whole has no inherited reading. Anyone offering a translation of Tashawn is translating Shawn and ignoring the prefix.
How the name formed
- Yohanan
- Iohannes
- Seán
- Shawn
- Tashawn
Related forms: Tashaun · Tayshawn
Pronouncing Tashawn
tuh-SHAWN
Two syllables, stress on the second, with the first reduced to a schwa. The stress placement is fixed: the prefix is never stressed in this family of names.
Nicknames for Tashawn
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
- 1975
- Most boys named
- 200591 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1546reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- −15.4%11 in 2025, from 13
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.
Tashawn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tashaun in English — spelling variant
- Tayshawn in English — spelling variant
Tashawns among us
people named Tashawn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 155,280 born in 2025 was named Tashawn
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 Richy test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tashawn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Richy climbed just as high around 1962, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Richy's path sketches the road Tashawn is walking now.
Tashawn 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
Tashawn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tashawn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is spelled the way it sounds, so it is rarely mispronounced.
- Shawn works as a full short form and is entirely conventional.
- The stress pattern is regular and shared with dozens of familiar names.
- The Ta- spelling competes with Tay-, Tah- and Te-, so it will be misspelled.
- The name as a whole has no meaning to give, only its second half.
- It dates fairly closely to the 1990s and 2000s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tashawns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Tashawn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tashawn in 2025?
- Tashawn ranks #7194 among US boy names in 2025, with 11 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tashawn?
- About 1 in every 155,280 US boys born in 2025 was named Tashawn — 11 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tashawn with classmates?
- Tashawn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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