Dayshawn
Last seen for girls in 1995 at #13,386 · #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
Given to boys 99.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1997 · 59 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,356since 1980
Dayshawn over time
Rank among boys' names. Dayshawn 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 | — | #7,194 | 11 | |
| 2024 | — | #7,765 | 10 | |
| 2023 | — | #5,666 | 16 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,633 | 16 | |
| 2021 | — | #6,032 | 14 | |
| 2020 | — | #6,296 | 13 | |
| 2019 | — | #6,406 | 13 | |
| 2018 | — | #8,154 | 9 | |
| 2017 | — | #5,526 | 16 | |
| 2016 | — | #7,157 | 11 | |
| 2015 | — | #5,746 | 15 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,538 | 21 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,064 | 24 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,625 | 29 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,110 | 24 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,958 | 39 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,348 | 55 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,062 | 67 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,304 | 56 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,102 | 62 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,813 | 71 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,974 | 61 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,936 | 60 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,046 | 53 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,249 | 45 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,968 | 52 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,162 | 43 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,680 | 61 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,672 | 59 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,073 | 41 | |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #1,782 | 49 |
| 1994 | — | #1,851 | 46 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,007 | 40 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,412 | 30 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,190 | 33 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,553 | 26 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,809 | 14 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,162 | 11 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,089 | 6 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,853 | 8 | |
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| 1984 | — | #2,437 | 20 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dayshawn! It came in at #5,525, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1981–1983, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Dayshawn is popular in 1994
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,089 · 1 in 15,729
- California#2,206 · 1 in 53,371
Best ever in a state: #347 in Louisiana, 1984.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,089 | 8 | 1 in 15,729 |
| California | #2,206 | 5 | 1 in 53,371 |
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See more about Dayshawn
- 571 spots since 2024 (#7,765 → #7,194)
- 898 spots since 2020 (#6,296 → #7,194)
- 1,448 spots since 2015 (#5,746 → #7,194)
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 1997 at #1,672 (59 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 28,131 boys born in 2005 were named Dayshawn (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,672 in 1997, was only 1 in 31,952 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 42.9% of all boys named Dayshawn (582) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 65 | #2,437 (1984) | #4,479 |
| 1990s | 428 | #1,672 (1997) | #2,038 |
| 2000s | 582 | #1,813 (2005) | #2,080 |
| 2010s | 201 | #2,958 (2010) | #5,228 |
| 2020s | 80 | #5,633 (2022) | #6,431 |
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.
Dayshawn in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 42,001 of them was named Dayshawn, which outranked 81.9% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,822Pascual47
- #1,822Treshawn47
- #1,822Zachory47
- #1,851Dayshawn46
- #1,851Anthoney46
- #1,851Carlin46
- #1,851Erasmo46
- #1,868Braylon45
- #1,868Camryn45
- #1,868Daquon45
Tied with 16 names at #1,851; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.