Dashawn
Last seen for girls in 2007 at #17,636 · #2,539 for boys in 2025, 52 births
Given to boys 94.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1994 · 373 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,880since 1968
Dashawn over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,539 | 52 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,502 | 54 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,315 | 60 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,022 | 75 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,915 | 79 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,716 | 90 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,899 | 78 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,809 | 84 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,780 | 86 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,675 | 94 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,481 | 112 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,375 | 124 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,376 | 122 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,095 | 170 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,132 | 160 | |
| 2010 | — | #980 | 201 | |
| 2009 | — | #912 | 226 | |
| 2008 | — | #821 | 268 | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #775 | 281 |
| 2006 | — | #691 | 324 | |
| 2005 | — | #648 | 336 | |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #649 | 316 |
| 2003 | — | #662 | 299 | |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | #607 | 331 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 | #596 | 333 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 | #599 | 329 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | #580 | 335 |
| 1998 | #4,636 | 23 | #574 | 341 |
| 1997 | #4,007 | 27 | #563 | 335 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 | #572 | 318 |
| 1995 | #3,585 | 30 | #580 | 312 |
| 1994 | #3,790 | 28 | #524 | 373 |
| 1993 | #4,257 | 24 | #559 | 331 |
| 1992 | #3,773 | 28 | #584 | 307 |
| 1991 | #5,181 | 18 | #612 | 278 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 | #732 | 194 |
| 1989 | #4,848 | 18 | #781 | 162 |
| 1988 | #4,840 | 17 | #884 | 116 |
| 1987 | #4,660 | 17 | #908 | 107 |
| 1986 | #5,459 | 13 | #1,127 | 70 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | #1,190 | 62 |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 | #1,198 | 58 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 | #1,239 | 55 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #1,362 | 48 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #1,396 | 46 |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 | #1,569 | 38 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 | #1,711 | 33 |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 | #1,474 | 40 |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | #1,335 | 46 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | #1,320 | 45 |
| 1975 | #4,593 | 13 | #1,160 | 53 |
| 1974 | #4,227 | 14 | #1,790 | 26 |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 | #1,696 | 27 |
| 1972 | #3,404 | 18 | #2,323 | 16 |
| 1971 | #4,311 | 13 | #2,558 | 14 |
| 1970 | #4,761 | 11 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,461 | 16 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | #4,136 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dashawn! It came in at #4,136, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1970, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Dashawn is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Jersey#452 · 1 in 6,065
- New York#749 · 1 in 12,616
- California#997 · 1 in 20,088
Best ever in a state: #104 in Delaware, 1991.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #452 | 7 | 1 in 6,065 |
| New York | #749 | 9 | 1 in 12,616 |
| California | #997 | 10 | 1 in 20,088 |
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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 Dashawn
- 37 spots since 2024 (#2,502 → #2,539)
- 823 spots since 2020 (#1,716 → #2,539)
- 1,058 spots since 2015 (#1,481 → #2,539)
- Biggest jump: 219 spots in 1987 (#1,127 → #908)
- Biggest drop: 152 spots in 2011 (#980 → #1,132)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1994 at #524 (373 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 24 yrs · run 1987–2010
- Highest: 1 in 5,180 boys born in 1994 were named Dashawn (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 32,848 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 35.2% of all boys named Dashawn (3,124) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1972, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 10 | #4,136 (1968) | #4,270 |
| 1970s | 300 | #1,160 (1975) | #1,707 |
| 1980s | 762 | #781 (1989) | #1,165 |
| 1990s | 3,124 | #524 (1994) | #588 |
| 2000s | 3,043 | #596 (2001) | #696 |
| 2010s | 1,231 | #980 (2010) | #1,460 |
| 2020s | 410 | #1,716 (2020) | #2,168 |
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.
Dashawn in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 333,612 of them was named Dashawn, which outranked 14.6% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,787 names at #10,411; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 38,939 of them was named Dashawn, which outranked 80.8% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,373Valentino47
- #1,373Viet47
- #1,373Yaakov47
- #1,396Dashawn46
- #1,396Arnaldo46
- #1,396Charlton46
- #1,396Hollis46
- #1,411Adriel45
- #1,411Antwone45
- #1,411Baby45
Tied with 14 names at #1,396; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.