Dajon
Dajon was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,194 among boys’ names; 1,795 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,750 Americans named Dajon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dajon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dajon?
#6,194 among boys’ names, 2025
Dajon fell from #4,918 in 2015 to #6,194 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.9 to 8.2 per million.
98 babies in 1999, the peak
Dajon peaked in 1999, when 98 boys were given it, #1,257 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,194 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,914 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 15 | #5,988 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,250 | 10.3 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,194 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,729 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,161 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 26 | #4,008 | 14.3 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,692 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 23 | #4,353 | 12.1 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #4,918 | 9.9 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,664 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,422 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,032 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 34 | #3,253 | 17.9 |
| 2010 | 50 | #2,476 | 26.1 |
| 2009 | 41 | #2,908 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 49 | #2,553 | 24.0 |
| 2007 | 51 | #2,479 | 24.6 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,412 | 24.8 |
| 2005 | 49 | #2,370 | 24.5 |
| 2004 | 51 | #2,246 | 25.7 |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,007 | 28.9 |
| 2002 | 64 | #1,790 | 33.0 |
| 2001 | 97 | #1,335 | 49.9 |
| 2000 | 84 | #1,464 | 42.8 |
| 1999 | 98 | #1,257 | 51.0 |
| 1998 | 81 | #1,405 | 42.4 |
| 1997 | 86 | #1,319 | 45.6 |
| 1996 | 82 | #1,320 | 43.3 |
| 1995 | 64 | #1,490 | 33.6 |
| 1994 | 67 | #1,431 | 34.7 |
| 1993 | 71 | #1,355 | 36.2 |
| 1992 | 63 | #1,452 | 31.5 |
| 1991 | 43 | #1,828 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 44 | #1,778 | 21.4 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,367 | 14.0 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,235 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,563 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,188 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,105 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,501 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,742 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,040 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dajon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,795 Americans recorded as Dajon, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dajon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dajon, and how old are they?
1,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,795 Americans ever recorded as Dajon. The median Dajon alive today is 26 years old; half are between 19 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 1,269 people named Dajon (74 women and girls, 1,195 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,681 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 556 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 969 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 221 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Dajon born?
The states with the most babies named Dajon are California, Michigan and New York, with 63% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 187 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 106 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| New York | 78 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 48 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 27 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 25 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 24 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| South Carolina | 12 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Connecticut | 11 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Dajon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dajon is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1980 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dajon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 7,182 babies since 1880, Dajon is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 40 babies (35%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dajon
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dajon and names like it
- Compare Dajon and DajuanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDajon peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dajon since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Dajon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dajon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.