Boys' name · since 2005
Dacion
Dacion has 30 recorded births since 2005 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2005 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #25,788 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 30
- born since 2005
- 2010s
- peak decade
30 boys have been named Dacion since 2005, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Dacion has 30 recorded births among boys since 2005, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2005 to 2019.
- #25,788 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- 30 born since 2005
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Dacion ranks #25,788 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 30 born since 2005, peaking in the 2010s.
- #25,788 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 30
- born since 2005
- 2010s
- peak decade
Dacion's 30 recorded births place it above 42.89% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Dacion's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Dacion's full recorded timeline at 2014, 57% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 43% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2014, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2005 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Dacion popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2005–2019
- Peak year (2005)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 15 years of records
Dacion by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (23 births, 77% of the file).
2010s was Dacion's strongest decade.
23 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 77% of all-time use.
Dacion births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 7
2000s
7 births
- 2010s
2010s
23 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 23 births (77% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Dacion: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2005–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Dacion draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.