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Rushawn

Boys' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Rushawn has been given to 98 babies in the U.S. since 1981. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1995, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Rushawn, 2022

1 in 677,000

Rushawn over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rushawn: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rushawn means

Rushawn is a modern given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Apparently coined in 1944 in honour of the Russian people engaged in fighting World War II. Alteration of Russian, after Shawn.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Rushawn (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Rushawn is used in English.

Rushawn is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 98 boys were recorded with the name Rushawn between 1981 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1995; its best national rank was #5,470 in 1984.

How common is Rushawn?

Rushawn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rushawn 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rushawn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rushawns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rushawn was born before 1999 — so the typical Rushawn is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
37.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
98
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 37.8% of all recorded uses (37).

Is Rushawn 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1995 (9)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,470
1984

Spellings of Rushawn

Rushawn is not the most common spelling — Shawn is, with 81.2% against Rushawn's 0.03%.

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.

Rushawn around the world

Where Rushawn ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2004
    #3,651
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Rushawn by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,470
1984
Peak year
1995
9 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
98
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rushawn

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

RustamRustenMishawnRushtonMyshawnRushankRushabhNyshawnRustynRusbelRusellRuslanJeshawnArshawnRyshawnRushdanRishawnNishawnKyshawnJoshawnVashawnCashawnNeshawnZyshawn

Sibling names for Rushawn

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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