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 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#547 · 1 in 2,981
- South Carolina#588 · 1 in 3,617
- Louisiana#799 · 1 in 5,008
- Illinois#818 · 1 in 6,596
- Tennessee#854 · 1 in 7,264
Best ever in a state: #376 in North Carolina, 1996.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #547 | 5 | 1 in 2,981 |
| South Carolina | #588 | 6 | 1 in 3,617 |
| Louisiana | #799 | 5 | 1 in 5,008 |
| Illinois | #818 | 11 | 1 in 6,596 |
| Tennessee | #854 | 5 | 1 in 7,264 |
| Ohio | #862 | 8 | 1 in 7,832 |
| Indiana | #883 | 5 | 1 in 7,477 |
| Florida | #884 | 13 | 1 in 7,331 |
| Georgia | #924 | 8 | 1 in 7,378 |
| North Carolina | #980 | 6 | 1 in 8,973 |
| New York | #1,312 | 8 | 1 in 13,464 |
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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 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 17,710 of them was named Dashaun, which outranked 89.8% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,472Uziel113
- #1,472Vihaan113
- #1,472Yariel113
- #1,488Dashaun112
- #1,488Angus112
- #1,488Damarcus112
- #1,488Demari112
- #1,497Benton111
- #1,497Brayson111
- #1,497Darrion111
Tied with 8 names at #1,488; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.