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Marshawn

#2,702 in 2025Boys' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Marshawn has been given to 2,752 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #2,702 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 130 recorded.

Babies named Marshawn, 2025

1 in 69,100

Marshawn over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marshawn: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

coinages

What Marshawn means

Marshawn is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Marshawn is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Marshawn is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,674 boys were recorded with the name Marshawn between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 130 in 2015; its best national rank was #1,350 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,037 in 2020 to #2,702 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,350 in 2015 to #2,702 in 2025.

In the United States, 78 girls were recorded with the name Marshawn between 1969 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1971; its best national rank was #5,833 in 1971.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Marshawn?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 69,100
48 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 35,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,702
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
47,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marshawn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 47,874 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marshawn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marshawns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marshawn was born before 2008 — so the typical Marshawn is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,674
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.6% of all recorded uses (871).

Is Marshawn rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+730
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−665
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,352
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.37×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
36.9%
Peak was 2015 (130)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,350
2015

Spellings of Marshawn

Marshawn is not the most common spelling — Marshall is, with 68.3% against Marshawn's 1.9%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Marshawn is used

Across 2016–2025, Marshawn was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 6,250 boys, against 1 in 25,670 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

016 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 6,250
  2. 2Ohio1 in 8,333
  3. 3Michigan1 in 14,286
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 25,000
  5. 5California1 in 33,333
  6. 6Florida1 in 50,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 50,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Notable people named Marshawn

People whose public names include Marshawn, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Marshawn in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Marshawn. Linked forms have their own page here.

Marshon

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Marshawn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,702
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 665
Best rank ever
#1,350
2015
Peak year
2015
130 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,674
Count in 2025
48

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,833
1971
Peak year
1971
9 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
78
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marshawn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Marshawn

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Marshawn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

SaadKeelanKamranZachariasKhristianKrishnaKlaytonNahumMuhammedHusseinAndreyDezmond

Sibling names for Marshawn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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