Jayshawn
Meaning of Jayshawn
Jayshawn constitutes a modern bisyllabic given name within Anglo-American onomastic practice, morphologically assembled from the prefix “Jay,” itself traceable to Latin Gaius and Old French references to the jaybird, and the element “Shawn,” an Anglicized phonetic variant of the Irish Sean (from Hebrew Yoḥanan, “Yahweh is gracious”). Phonetically rendered jay-SHAWN [dʒeɪˈʃɔn], it first entered the U.S. Social Security Administration’s top 1000 in 1988 with seven recorded instances, reached its peak annual incidence of 114 births in 2010 (rank 773), and has since stabilized at roughly 21–32 occurrences per year in the early 2020s (rank 903 in 2024). From a technical lexemic perspective, the combination of its constituent morphemes yields semantic associations with avian imagery, elation, and divine grace, exemplifying both classical etymological roots and late twentieth-century innovation in male naming conventions.
Pronunciation
American English
- Pronunced as jay-SHAWN (/dʒeɪˈʃɔn/)
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