Dashawn
Dashawn was given to 52 boys in 2025, #2,543 among boys’ names; 9,421 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,160 Americans named Dashawn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dashawn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dashawn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dashawn is “a male given name of African-American usage.”
Variant of DeShawn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dashawn?
#2,543 among boys’ names, 2025
Dashawn fell from #1,482 in 2015 to #2,543 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 58.4 to 30.4 per million.
401 babies in 1994, the peak
Dashawn peaked in 1994, when 401 babies were given it (373 boys, #525 among boys’ names). The 52 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52 | #2,543 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 54 | #2,509 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,323 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 75 | #2,025 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 79 | #1,919 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 90 | #1,721 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 78 | #1,903 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 84 | #1,809 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 86 | #1,783 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 94 | #1,678 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 112 | #1,482 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 124 | #1,378 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 122 | #1,378 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 170 | #1,095 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 160 | #1,133 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 201 | #980 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 226 | #914 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 268 | #821 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 281 | #776 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 324 | #691 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 336 | #648 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 316 | #649 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 299 | #662 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 331 | #607 | 0.17 |
| 2001 | 333 | #597 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 329 | #599 | 0.17 |
| 1999 | 335 | #580 | 0.17 |
| 1998 | 341 | #575 | 0.18 |
| 1997 | 335 | #563 | 0.18 |
| 1996 | 318 | #573 | 0.17 |
| 1995 | 312 | #579 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 373 | #525 | 0.19 |
| 1993 | 331 | #559 | 0.17 |
| 1992 | 307 | #583 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 278 | #610 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 194 | #729 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 162 | #778 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 116 | #884 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 107 | #908 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 70 | #1,127 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,192 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,202 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 55 | #1,242 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 48 | #1,364 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 46 | #1,398 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 38 | #1,577 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 33 | #1,723 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 40 | #1,477 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 46 | #1,339 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,322 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 53 | #1,161 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 26 | #1,800 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 27 | #1,703 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,345 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,588 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,530 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,263 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dashawn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,421 Americans recorded as Dashawn, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 52 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 Dashawn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dashawn, and how old are they?
9,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 9,421 Americans ever recorded as Dashawn. The median Dashawn alive today is 26 years old; half are between 19 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 6,112 people named Dashawn (353 women and girls, 5,759 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,854 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% 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 | 462 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,980 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,620 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,100 |
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 Dashawn born?
The states with the most babies named Dashawn are Texas, Illinois and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,342 | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,335 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,894 | 0.6× |
Where Dashawn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dashawn is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1968 it was given 2.6 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 Dashawn 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 12,840 babies since 1880, Dashawn is the most given (73% of them). In 2025 it was given to 52 of their 81 babies (64%), 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 Dashawn
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 Dashawn and names like it
- Compare Dashawn and DayshawnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDashawn peaked in 1994.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dashawn since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Dashawn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dashawn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.