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.
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 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 102,272 of them was named Dashawn, which outranked 64.9% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,474Vienna18
- #4,474Vivien18
- #4,474Yehudis18
- #4,660Dashawn17
- #4,660Adara17
- #4,660Alannah17
- #4,660Alejandro17
- #4,857Abena16
- #4,857Adrain16
- #4,857Adrielle16
Tied with 196 names at #4,660; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 17,448 of them was named Dashawn, which outranked 88.9% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #904Hank108
- #904Monte108
- #904Trever108
- #908Dashawn107
- #908Cordaro107
- #908Holden107
- #908Jessy107
- #914Edmond106
- #914Johathan106
- #914Kalen106
Tied with 5 names at #908; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.