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 2013
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- South Carolina#558 · 1 in 3,535
- Kentucky#588 · 1 in 4,441
- Ohio#617 · 1 in 4,590
- Virginia#835 · 1 in 6,953
- Florida#966 · 1 in 8,491
Best ever in a state: #104 in Delaware, 1991.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #558 | 6 | 1 in 3,535 |
| Kentucky | #588 | 5 | 1 in 4,441 |
| Ohio | #617 | 13 | 1 in 4,590 |
| Virginia | #835 | 6 | 1 in 6,953 |
| Florida | #966 | 11 | 1 in 8,491 |
| New Jersey | #975 | 5 | 1 in 8,305 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,003 | 6 | 1 in 9,959 |
| Illinois | #1,043 | 7 | 1 in 9,416 |
| Georgia | #1,059 | 6 | 1 in 8,948 |
| Texas | #1,683 | 8 | 1 in 22,532 |
| California | #2,006 | 7 | 1 in 32,432 |
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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 2013
Top boys' names in 2013
More about 2013
boys
1,891,581 boys got a published name in 2013; 1 in 15,505 of them was named Dashawn, which outranked 90.2% of the 14,070 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,370Ely123
- #1,370Laith123
- #1,370Maddex123
- #1,376Dashawn122
- #1,376Aryeh122
- #1,376Clint122
- #1,376Dashiell122
- #1,387Bane121
- #1,387Eleazar121
- #1,387Ever121
Tied with 10 names at #1,376; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.