Dash — #968 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Dash

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,082 babies named Dash between 1984 and 2024, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dash currently holds the #968 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 322 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dash performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,335 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Dash shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 443 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Dash in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dash in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,082 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.