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Jshawn

jay-shawn /dʒeɪ.ʃən/

At a glance

U.S. rank 2025
Not in the 2025 data · last seen 2019 (#9,756)
Babies in 2019
7 (<0.01% of boys)
Peak
#3,710 in 2005
First recorded
1996

Meaning of Jshawn

The name Jshawn unfolds like a sunrise over amber plains, a modern heirloom that fuses the resonant initial “J”—an unspoken nod to Juan, José and John, each born of the Latin Ioannes, “the Lord is gracious”—with Shawn, the Gaelic hymn of Sean, and thus emerges a tapestry of grace and strength woven in a single breath. In American households from coast to coast, its two syllables—pronounced JAY-shawn—flow with the warmth of a late-summer sonata, carrying in their cadence the echo of distant drums and the promise of untold stories. Though its presence in the nation’s birth records has danced between the mid-800s and low-900s in rank, Jshawn endures like a hidden spring, cherished by families drawn to its gentle power and lyrical flair. He is at once a bridge between tradition and invention, a name that wears heritage like a cloak and dreams like wings, inviting each child who bears it to chart a path lit by both ancestral grace and the boundless hues of tomorrow.

How to pronounce Jshawn

English

Popularity of Jshawn in the U.S.

Jshawn was last recorded in the U.S. in 2019, ranked #9,756 with 7 babies. It peaked at #3,710 in 2005. It first appears in the records in 1996.

Bar and line chart: Jshawn in the U.S., 1996–2019. Bars: boys given the name each year, most 28 in 2008 and 7 in 2019. Line: rank among boy names, peak #3,710 in 2005, #9,756 in 2019.
  • Boys named Jshawn (left scale)
  • Rank among U.S. boy names (right scale, #1 at the top)
By year, 1996–2019. Source: SSA. Download: PNG · SVG
Year-by-year table, 1996⁠–⁠2019 22 rows
Jshawn: babies and rank among boy names in the U.S. by year
YearBabiesRankvs previous year
201979,756▼ 3,411
2018136,345▲ 4,430
2017610,775▼ 3,170
2016107,605▼ 1,281
2015136,324▼ 17
2014136,307▼ 384
2013145,923▼ 1,390
2012214,533▲ 667
2011175,200▲ 541
2010155,741▼ 1,463
2009234,278▼ 534
2008283,744▲ 383
2007244,127▲ 738
2006184,865▼ 1,155
2005253,710▲ 1,297
2004165,007▲ 264
2003145,271▼ 1,083
2002194,188▲ 1,202
2001135,390▲ 530
2000115,920▲ 610
199996,530back (not recorded in 1997–1998)
199686,496new