Dash
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477 · #1,056 for boys in 2025, 207 births
Given to boys 98.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 322 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,297since 1984
Dash over time
Rank among boys' names. Dash has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,056 | 207 | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #955 | 238 |
| 2023 | — | #893 | 260 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #824 | 301 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #791 | 311 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | #796 | 291 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #751 | 318 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #784 | 292 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #741 | 322 |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 | #777 | 307 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | #769 | 310 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #938 | 224 |
| 2013 | — | #1,144 | 158 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,218 | 146 | |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #1,271 | 135 |
| 2010 | — | #1,372 | 123 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,809 | 82 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,932 | 74 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,533 | 49 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,578 | 46 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,960 | 35 | |
| 2004 | — | #8,927 | 7 | |
| 2003 | — | #7,831 | 8 | |
| 2002 | — | #9,392 | 6 | |
| 2001 | — | #7,536 | 8 | |
| 2000 | — | #7,416 | 8 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,139 | 8 | |
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| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
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| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,751 | 7 | |
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| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dash! It came in at #5,561, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1985–1987, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Dash is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Maryland#411 · 1 in 1,912
- Louisiana#453 · 1 in 1,938
- Georgia#577 · 1 in 3,014
- Kentucky#597 · 1 in 3,297
- Missouri#642 · 1 in 3,497
Best ever in a state: #220 in District of Columbia, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | #411 | 13 | 1 in 1,912 |
| Louisiana | #453 | 11 | 1 in 1,938 |
| Georgia | #577 | 17 | 1 in 3,014 |
| Kentucky | #597 | 6 | 1 in 3,297 |
| Missouri | #642 | 8 | 1 in 3,497 |
| Virginia | #669 | 10 | 1 in 3,839 |
| Utah | #677 | 5 | 1 in 3,788 |
| Arizona | #686 | 8 | 1 in 4,079 |
| New York | #716 | 19 | 1 in 4,588 |
| Florida | #725 | 20 | 1 in 4,767 |
| North Carolina | #764 | 11 | 1 in 4,633 |
| Texas | #775 | 34 | 1 in 5,256 |
| Washington | #801 | 7 | 1 in 4,748 |
| Illinois | #816 | 10 | 1 in 5,176 |
| New Jersey | #819 | 7 | 1 in 5,815 |
| California | #820 | 30 | 1 in 6,304 |
| Ohio | #850 | 9 | 1 in 5,900 |
| Pennsylvania | #905 | 8 | 1 in 6,692 |
| Michigan | #908 | 7 | 1 in 5,929 |
| Tennessee | #1,023 | 5 | 1 in 7,182 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Dash
- 101 spots since 2024 (#955 → #1,056)
- 260 spots since 2020 (#796 → #1,056)
- 287 spots since 2015 (#769 → #1,056)
- Biggest jump: 206 spots in 2014 (#1,144 → #938)
- Biggest drop: 101 spots in 2025 (#955 → #1,056)
- Debuted 1984
- Peaked 2017 at #741 (322 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2014–2024
- Highest: 1 in 5,625 boys born in 2021 were named Dash (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,252 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #741 in 2017, was only 1 in 5,748 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 54.3% of all boys named Dash (2,335) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 18 | #5,561 (1984) | #6,406 |
| 1990s | 13 | #7,139 (1999) | #7,787 |
| 2000s | 323 | #1,809 (2009) | #5,291 |
| 2010s | 2,335 | #741 (2017) | #977 |
| 2020s | 1,608 | #791 (2021) | #886 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dash in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 328,026 of them was named Dash, which outranked 13.8% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,454 names at #15,306; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 5,801 of them was named Dash, which outranked 94.3% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).