How popular is the baby name Dusharme in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Dusharme.
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Beauty queen Du Sharme Carter, who represented Oklahoma at Miss America 1993 (held in September of 1992). Though she didn’t win the pageant, she did place 4th runner-up.
I couldn’t find a clip of Du Sharme introducing herself, but pageant co-hosts Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford consistently pronounced her first name doo-SHAYR-mee — middle syllable like the first part of Sharon.
In October, Jet magazine profiled Du Sharme and the three other African-American delegates in the pageant that year. (The most successful, Pamela McKelvy of Kansas, placed 3rd runner-up.)
It’s possible that Du Sharme Carter’s name was inspired by DuSharme hair care products, which were being advertised regularly in African-American magazines like Jet and Ebony during the early 1970s (when she was born).
What are your thoughts on the name Du Sharme?
P.S. The winner of Miss America 1993 was Leanza Cornett.
These baby names are one-hit wonders in the U.S. baby name data. That is, they’ve only popped up once, ever, in the entire dataset of U.S. baby names (which accounts for all names given to at least 5 U.S. babies per year since 1880).
There are thousands of one-hit wonders in the dataset, but the names below have interesting stories behind their single appearance, so these are the one-hits I’m writing specific posts about. Just click on a name to read more.
As I discover (and write about) more one-hit wonders in the data, I’ll add the names/links to this page. In the meanwhile, do you have any favorite one-hit wonder baby names?
Did you know that there have been Miss Americas named Venus (1944), BeBe (1948), Jacque (1949), Vonda (1965) and Leanza (1993)?
Miss America 1926, Norma Smallwood, had the middle name Des Cygne (French for “swans”), which she then passed along to her daughter as a first name (paired with the middle name L’Amour, French for “love”).
In 2000, the Miss America pageant included delegates named Brandee (from New Hampshire), Brandi (from New York) and Brandy (from Arkansas).
Other interesting names I spotted skimming over lists of delegates include…
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