Dashawn — #2562 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Dashawn

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,825 babies named Dashawn between 1968 and 2024, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dashawn currently holds the #2562 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 373 babies received it in a single year. Dashawn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 541 additional births since 1968.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dashawn performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 3,124 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Dashawn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,184 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Dashawn in 32 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dashawn 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 8,825 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.