Dasha
Dasha was given to 88 girls in 2025, #2,128 among girls’ names; 4,133 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,070 Americans named Dasha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 12 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dasha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dasha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dasha is “a female given name, from Russian, Ukrainian Даша, diminutive of Darja (Дарья or Дар'я).”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dasha?
#2,128 among girls’ names, 2025
Dasha fell from #2,063 in 2015 to #2,128 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 53.2 to 54.8 per million.
135 babies in 1995, the peak
Dasha peaked in 1995, when 135 girls were given it, #1,252 among girls’ names. The 88 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 88 | #2,128 | 54.8 |
| 2024 | 108 | #1,856 | 66.7 |
| 2023 | 104 | #1,910 | 64.8 |
| 2022 | 71 | #2,510 | 43.3 |
| 2021 | 77 | #2,350 | 46.9 |
| 2020 | 50 | #3,155 | 30.9 |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,488 | 42.3 |
| 2018 | 80 | #2,279 | 47.0 |
| 2017 | 101 | #1,964 | 58.5 |
| 2016 | 84 | #2,274 | 47.4 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 95 | #2,063 | 53.2 |
| 2014 | 98 | #2,012 | 54.9 |
| 2013 | 109 | #1,851 | 62.1 |
| 2012 | 122 | #1,707 | 69.3 |
| 2011 | 105 | #1,899 | 59.7 |
| 2010 | 103 | #1,948 | 57.9 |
| 2009 | 131 | #1,697 | 71.3 |
| 2008 | 113 | #1,883 | 59.8 |
| 2007 | 100 | #2,042 | 52.0 |
| 2006 | 101 | #1,980 | 53.1 |
| 2005 | 80 | #2,262 | 43.3 |
| 2004 | 92 | #2,002 | 50.1 |
| 2003 | 106 | #1,776 | 58.0 |
| 2002 | 109 | #1,685 | 60.7 |
| 2001 | 130 | #1,450 | 72.2 |
| 2000 | 100 | #1,740 | 55.1 |
| 1999 | 107 | #1,573 | 60.3 |
| 1998 | 119 | #1,436 | 67.3 |
| 1997 | 128 | #1,345 | 73.5 |
| 1996 | 135 | #1,278 | 77.0 |
| 1995 | 135 | #1,252 | 76.8 |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,906 | 41.4 |
| 1993 | 55 | #2,326 | 30.4 |
| 1992 | 82 | #1,773 | 44.5 |
| 1991 | 80 | #1,778 | 42.7 |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,436 | 26.3 |
| 1989 | 67 | #1,920 | 36.3 |
| 1988 | 61 | #1,967 | 34.3 |
| 1987 | 50 | #2,162 | 28.8 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,146 | 16.9 |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,495 | 22.7 |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,310 | 24.9 |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,796 | 18.6 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,593 | 21.3 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,793 | 19.2 |
| 1980 | 45 | #2,223 | 27.1 |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,088 | 16.8 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,122 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,846 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,945 | 17.1 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,196 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,565 | 19.8 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,020 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,129 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,602 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,486 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,809 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,230 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dasha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dasha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dasha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dasha, and how old are they?
4,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,133 Americans ever recorded as Dasha. The median Dasha alive today is 22 years old; half are between 12 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 3,519 people named Dasha (3,474 women and girls, 45 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,600 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 239 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 973 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,730 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,130 |
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 Dasha born?
The states with the most babies named Dasha are New Jersey, New York and Texas, with 57% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 10 | #732 | 0.6× |
| New York | 9 | #1,434 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,699 | 0.7× |
| California | 5 | #3,213 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,239 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,443 | 0.2× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #914 | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Dasha 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,905 babies since 1880, Dasha is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 88 of their 151 babies (58%), the most given that year.
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 Dasha
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 Dasha and names like it
- Compare Dasha and DaishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDasha peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dasha since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Dasha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dasha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.