Dashaun
Dashaun was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,741 among boys’ names; 2,920 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,850 Americans named Dashaun and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 18 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dashaun by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dashaun?
#4,741 among boys’ names, 2025
Dashaun fell from #4,425 in 2015 to #4,741 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 11.5 to 12.3 per million.
138 babies in 2007, the peak
Dashaun peaked in 2007, when 138 boys were given it, #1,274 among boys’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #4,741 | 12.3 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,734 | 12.2 |
| 2023 | 19 | #5,106 | 11.1 |
| 2022 | 31 | #3,631 | 17.8 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,383 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,165 | 13.9 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,002 | 22.3 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,805 | 15.4 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,628 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 24 | #4,219 | 12.6 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #4,425 | 11.5 |
| 2014 | 42 | #2,817 | 21.9 |
| 2013 | 48 | #2,536 | 25.4 |
| 2012 | 54 | #2,362 | 28.5 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,207 | 31.1 |
| 2010 | 69 | #1,985 | 36.0 |
| 2009 | 112 | #1,489 | 56.5 |
| 2008 | 107 | #1,517 | 52.4 |
| 2007 | 138 | #1,274 | 66.5 |
| 2006 | 133 | #1,258 | 64.7 |
| 2005 | 122 | #1,271 | 61.1 |
| 2004 | 128 | #1,194 | 64.5 |
| 2003 | 106 | #1,309 | 53.7 |
| 2002 | 105 | #1,285 | 54.1 |
| 2001 | 108 | #1,229 | 55.6 |
| 2000 | 118 | #1,163 | 60.1 |
| 1999 | 116 | #1,133 | 60.4 |
| 1998 | 117 | #1,096 | 61.2 |
| 1997 | 106 | #1,151 | 56.2 |
| 1996 | 90 | #1,235 | 47.5 |
| 1995 | 79 | #1,314 | 41.5 |
| 1994 | 90 | #1,209 | 46.6 |
| 1993 | 80 | #1,264 | 40.8 |
| 1992 | 64 | #1,433 | 32.0 |
| 1991 | 80 | #1,241 | 39.6 |
| 1990 | 56 | #1,516 | 27.3 |
| 1989 | 49 | #1,616 | 24.5 |
| 1988 | 29 | #2,148 | 15.1 |
| 1987 | 36 | #1,796 | 19.3 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,616 | 10.9 |
| 1985 | 22 | #2,370 | 11.9 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,503 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 19 | #2,506 | 10.6 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,526 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,595 | 10.0 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,381 | 11.8 |
| 1979 | 24 | #2,116 | 13.9 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,651 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,696 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,314 | 7.0 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,512 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dashaun a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,920 Americans recorded as Dashaun, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 21 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 Dashaun: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dashaun, and how old are they?
2,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,920 Americans ever recorded as Dashaun. The median Dashaun alive today is 24 years old; half are between 18 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 2,134 people named Dashaun (86 women and girls, 2,048 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,743 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 | 70 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 745 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,680 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 355 |
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 Dashaun born?
The states with the most babies named Dashaun are New York, North Carolina and Illinois, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 238 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 150 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 124 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 107 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 107 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 103 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| South Carolina | 82 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| New Jersey | 76 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 75 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 65 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Dashaun is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dashaun is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1971 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 Dashaun 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 6,624 babies since 1880, Dashaun is the most given (44% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 27 babies (78%), again the 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 Dashaun
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 Dashaun and names like it
- Compare Dashaun and DashonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDashaun peaked in 2007.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dashaun since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Dashaun.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dashaun alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.