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DeShawn

DeShawn proper noun: a male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.

Proper noun (1)

DeShawn

  1. A male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Deshawn

Deshawn

  1. (alternative) Alternative spelling of DeShawn.

Forms of DeShawn

alternative formDashawn
alternative formDa'Shawn
alternative formDeshaun
alternative formDeShaun
alternative formDeshawn

Origin of DeShawn

De- + Shawn. African-American coinage with the prefix De as in DeAndre, DeAngelo, and other names popular in the 1990s + Shawn.

Questions about DeShawn

What does DeShawn mean?
DeShawn means a male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
What part of speech is DeShawn?
DeShawn is a proper noun.

Words near DeShawn in the dictionary

  1. deshapes
  2. deshaping
  3. Deshastha
  4. Deshasthas
  5. Deshaw
  6. DeShawn
  7. DeShawna
  8. Deshaws
  9. deshbhakt
  10. deshbhakti
  11. deshbhakts

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: DeShawn (page history and authors); Deshawn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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