Shavaughn
The Story of Shavaughn
As a girl name
Shavaughn first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a girl name in 1977, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1980: 13 births, good for #5,246 nationwide. About 62% of every Shavaughn on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Shavaughn last appeared in the published SSA data in 2003, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 174 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
As a boy name
Shavaughn first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a boy name in 1993, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1993: 6 births, good for #7,638 nationwide. Shavaughn last appeared in the published SSA data in 1995, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 11 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
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About the name Shavaughn
Shavaughn is a unisex baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1977 and has accumulated 174 births in the dataset. Shavaughn's peak popularity came in 1980 when it ranked #5,246. Use the chart and map above to compare Shavaughn's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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