Dash

Where Dash comes from

From Old French de + Old English æsċ "(residing) near an ash tree".
— Wiktionary's entry for Dash
Along the way
  1. 1974
    Dash Mihok born
    American actor
  2. 1981
    Dash Snow born
    American photographer and artist
  3. 1984
    First appearance
    #5,561 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2017
    Peak, #741
    322 babies named Dash — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Dash Mihok · American actor, born 1974
  • Dash Snow · American photographer and artist, 1981–2009
  • Dash Shaw · cartoonist, born 1983

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.