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Tayshawn

Masculine · “God is gracious”

1991high 2006
#5861 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare15 boys in 2025

Tayshawn is a compound whose second half is a complete name, and a very old one. Shawn is the English spelling of Sean, which is the Irish spelling of John — so the back of this name carries three thousand years of history and the front carries about forty. That combination is characteristic of a whole American family: Dashawn, Rashawn, Deshawn, Tayshawn. Its peak is 2006.

How old is the name Tayshawn?

Tayshawn first appears in US birth records in 1991 — 34 years ago. The typical Tayshawn alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 1,300 people named Tayshawn are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Tayshawn most popular?

Tayshawn peaked in 2006, reaching #1294 nationally. Today it ranks #5861, 4,567 places below that high. See the whole 2006 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Tayshawn

Sean entered Irish from Norman French after the twelfth-century invasion, and English-speaking America respelled it Shawn and Shaun to make it readable. From the 1970s onward, Shawn became one of the most productive second elements in African-American naming, joined to a large range of fronts: Dashawn, Deshawn, Rashawn, Lashawn, Tayshawn. The pattern works because Shawn is a full syllable with a clear vowel and a clean ending, so it takes stress well and joins cleanly. Tayshawn belongs to the later part of that run and peaked in the mid-2000s, a generation after Deshawn and Dashawn.

Meaningscholars disagree

God is gracious, in the Shawn element

Shawn descends from Irish Sean, which is the Irish rendering of the Norman French Jehan, itself from Latin Iohannes and Hebrew Yohanan, 'Yahweh is gracious'. That half of the name is documented at every step. The Tay- front is an American naming element with no lexical content — it appears also in Taylen, Tayvon and Tayden. So the compound carries a genuine meaning in one half and nothing in the other, which is an accurate description rather than a criticism.

How the name formed

  1. Yohanan
  2. Iohannes
  3. Sean
  4. Shawn
  5. Tayshawn

Related forms: Sean · Shawn · Tayshaun

Pronouncing Tayshawn

tay-SHAWN

Two syllables, stress at the end, with both vowels long and clear. The spelling is unambiguous and English readers produce it correctly on sight, which is one of the advantages of building from a familiar second element.

Nicknames for Tayshawn

High

ShawnThe back half, and a complete name in wide use
TayThe front, and a current short form in its own right
ShayA softer form built on the second element
TThe initial alone, common among friends and teammates
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

BOYS NAMED · 1991–20251286401281519912025

US babies named Tayshawn per year from 1991 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#12941990s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1991
Most boys named
2006128 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1294reached in 2006
Change vs 2024
−6.3%15 in 2025, from 16
Tayshawn sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2006, with 128 boys. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Tayshawn in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Sean in Irish — related form
  • Shawn in English — related form
  • Tayshaun in English — spelling variant

Tayshawns among us

1,300

people named Tayshawn are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 boy in 113,872 born in 2025 was named Tayshawn

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

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Is it right for you

The Carrington test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tayshawn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Carrington climbed just as high around 1990, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Carrington's path sketches the road Tayshawn is walking now.

40%chance Tayshawn will feel dated by 2040
Tayshawn, aligned on its peakCarrington· peak 1990not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+30 yrsCarrington · #6148Tayshawn today
Tayshawn today is about where Carrington stood in 2009 — 19 years past a #1294-sized peak. By 2024, Carrington had settled around #6148.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Tayshawn 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

Tayshawn beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Tayshawn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Tayshawnthis name15#5861Eber15#5861Wilton15#5861Ruby15#5861Stacy15#5861

US boys given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • Shawn and Tay are both complete names available as short forms.
  • The pronunciation is obvious from the spelling with no competing reading.
  • Half the name has a fully documented three-thousand-year history.
What to consider
  • Tayshawn and Tayshaun both circulate, so records will drift.
  • The front half has no meaning, so the answer to the question is only half an answer.
  • The name's curve is firmly 1995-2010, which places a bearer's generation.

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Frequently asked

How many Tayshawns are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Tayshawn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How popular is the name Tayshawn in 2025?
Tayshawn ranks #5861 among US boy names in 2025, with 15 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Tayshawn?
About 1 in every 113,872 US boys born in 2025 was named Tayshawn — 15 in all.
Will my child share the name Tayshawn with classmates?
Tayshawn will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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