Dajon
Last seen for girls in 1998 at #10,122 · #6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
Given to boys 96.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1999 · 98 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,725since 1980
Dajon over time
Rank among boys' names. Dajon 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #6,143 | 14 | |
| 2024 | — | #6,832 | 12 | |
| 2023 | — | #5,927 | 15 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,215 | 18 | |
| 2021 | — | #7,089 | 11 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,698 | 20 | |
| 2019 | — | #6,104 | 14 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,993 | 26 | |
| 2017 | — | #7,546 | 10 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,327 | 23 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,890 | 19 | |
| 2014 | — | #7,562 | 10 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,405 | 31 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,003 | 25 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,235 | 34 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,467 | 50 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,894 | 41 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,542 | 49 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,473 | 51 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,398 | 51 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,365 | 49 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,238 | 51 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,006 | 57 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,792 | 64 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,337 | 97 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,466 | 84 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,259 | 98 | |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | #1,406 | 81 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #1,321 | 86 |
| 1996 | — | #1,321 | 82 | |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #1,491 | 64 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | #1,434 | 67 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #1,358 | 71 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #1,452 | 63 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #1,823 | 43 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #1,780 | 44 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #2,359 | 28 |
| 1988 | — | #3,203 | 16 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,521 | 13 | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #4,130 | 10 |
| 1985 | — | #4,052 | 10 | |
| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
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| 1982 | — | #3,692 | 11 | |
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| 1980 | — | #4,940 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dajon! It came in at #4,940, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1981, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Dajon
- 689 spots since 2024 (#6,832 → #6,143)
- 1,445 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #6,143)
- 1,253 spots since 2015 (#4,890 → #6,143)
- Debuted 1980
- Peaked 1999 at #1,259 (98 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,593 boys born in 1999 were named Dajon (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 122,005 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 40.5% of all boys named Dajon (699) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 100 | #2,359 (1989) | #4,027 |
| 1990s | 699 | #1,259 (1999) | #1,465 |
| 2000s | 594 | #1,337 (2001) | #2,151 |
| 2010s | 242 | #2,467 (2010) | #4,753 |
| 2020s | 90 | #4,698 (2020) | #5,984 |
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.
Dajon in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 158,246 of them was named Dajon, which outranked 52.1% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,283Zenab12
- #7,283Zhana12
- #7,283Zyria12
- #7,742Dajon11
- #7,742Aalliyah11
- #7,742Aashna11
- #7,742Abagayle11
- #8,334Aailyah10
- #8,334Aarin10
- #8,334Aariona10
Tied with 591 names at #7,742; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 21,920 of them was named Dajon, which outranked 87.8% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,310Robbie87
- #1,310Santana87
- #1,310Semaj87
- #1,321Dajon86
- #1,321Coltin86
- #1,321Javan86
- #1,321Sabastian86
- #1,326Adriel85
- #1,326Brantley85
- #1,326Deric85
Tied with 4 names at #1,321; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.