Dashaun
Last seen for girls in 1998 at #14,122 · #4,707 for boys in 2025, 21 births
Given to boys 98.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1998 · 117 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,888since 1971
Dashaun over time
Rank among boys' names. Dashaun has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | — | #4,707 | 21 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,701 | 21 | |
| 2023 | — | #5,075 | 19 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,617 | 31 | |
| 2021 | — | #5,338 | 17 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,141 | 24 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,993 | 40 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,793 | 28 | |
| 2017 | — | #4,594 | 21 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,199 | 24 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,407 | 22 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,805 | 42 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,528 | 48 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,358 | 54 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,203 | 59 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,986 | 69 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,488 | 112 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,516 | 107 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,272 | 138 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,255 | 133 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,272 | 122 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,196 | 128 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,310 | 106 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,288 | 105 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,231 | 108 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,165 | 118 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,130 | 116 | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #1,096 | 117 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #1,154 | 106 |
| 1996 | — | #1,236 | 90 | |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #1,319 | 79 |
| 1994 | — | #1,211 | 90 | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #1,266 | 80 |
| 1992 | — | #1,429 | 64 | |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #1,245 | 80 |
| 1990 | — | #1,516 | 56 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,615 | 49 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,146 | 29 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,793 | 36 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,601 | 20 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,357 | 22 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,459 | 12 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,493 | 19 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,482 | 12 | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #2,569 | 18 |
| 1980 | — | #2,367 | 21 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,104 | 24 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
| 1977 | — | #4,582 | 7 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,264 | 11 | |
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| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dashaun! It came in at #4,375, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1975, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Dashaun is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Connecticut#407 · 1 in 3,723
- Virginia#432 · 1 in 3,307
- Indiana#438 · 1 in 3,804
- North Carolina#640 · 1 in 6,065
- Pennsylvania#715 · 1 in 9,531
Best ever in a state: #376 in North Carolina, 1996.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Connecticut | #407 | 5 | 1 in 3,723 |
| Virginia | #432 | 12 | 1 in 3,307 |
| Indiana | #438 | 10 | 1 in 3,804 |
| North Carolina | #640 | 8 | 1 in 6,065 |
| Pennsylvania | #715 | 7 | 1 in 9,531 |
| Ohio | #748 | 7 | 1 in 9,997 |
| New Jersey | #822 | 5 | 1 in 9,731 |
| New York | #866 | 12 | 1 in 9,611 |
| Georgia | #976 | 5 | 1 in 10,317 |
| Illinois | #1,156 | 5 | 1 in 16,066 |
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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 Dashaun
- 6 spots since 2024 (#4,701 → #4,707)
- 566 spots since 2020 (#4,141 → #4,707)
- 300 spots since 2015 (#4,407 → #4,707)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1998 at #1,096 (117 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,039 boys born in 2007 were named Dashaun (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 81,337 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,096 in 1998, was only 1 in 16,336 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.8% of all boys named Dashaun (1,177) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 55 | #2,104 (1979) | #3,776 |
| 1980s | 238 | #1,615 (1989) | #2,488 |
| 1990s | 878 | #1,096 (1998) | #1,260 |
| 2000s | 1,177 | #1,165 (2000) | #1,299 |
| 2010s | 407 | #1,986 (2010) | #3,187 |
| 2020s | 133 | #3,617 (2022) | #4,597 |
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.
Dashaun in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 353,390 of them was named Dashaun, which outranked 14.9% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,479 names at #14,122; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 16,336 of them was named Dashaun, which outranked 90.3% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,092Marquel118
- #1,092Milan118
- #1,092Ramsey118
- #1,096Dashaun117
- #1,096Chester117
- #1,096Coleton117
- #1,096Dana117
- #1,105Camren116
- #1,105Jamaal116
- #1,105Jovanny116
Tied with 8 names at #1,096; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.