Shavaughn

Where Shavaughn comes from

A 20th-century phonetic spelling of Irish Siobhán.
— Wiktionary's entry for Shavaughn
  • Irish
Along the way
  1. 1977
    First appearance
    #9,652 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1982
    Peak, #5,209
    13 babies named Shavaughn — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1994
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 2003
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Irish.
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.