Shevon
Shevon is a given name. Notable people with the name include:Shevon John-Brown, Grenadian footballer Shevon Jemie Lai, Malaysian badminton player Shevon Nieto, former Jamaican hurdler Shevon Thompson, Jamaican professional basketball player
- English
Meaning & Origin of Shevon
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Shevon is a given name. Notable people with the name include:Shevon John-Brown, Grenadian footballer Shevon Jemie Lai, Malaysian badminton player Shevon Nieto, former Jamaican hurdler Shevon Thompson, Jamaican professional basketball player
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Shevon
The earliest SSA record of Shevon as a baby girl name dates back to 1955, when 5 babies received it. 1979 was its biggest year on record, with 49 newborns named Shevon — #2,051 in the national rankings. About 50% of every Shevon on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Shevon last appeared in the published SSA data in 2007, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 420 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1950s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Shevon
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About the name Shevon
Shevon is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1955 and has accumulated 420 births in the dataset. Shevon's peak popularity came in 1979 when it ranked #2,051. Use the chart and map above to compare Shevon'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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