Deshawna

Where Deshawna comes from

De- + Shawna. African-American coinage with the prefix De
— Wiktionary's entry for Deshawna
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1969
    First appearance
    #7,471 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1990
    Peak, #4,003
    25 babies named Deshawna — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2001
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #9,351.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.