Dashay — unisex name

What the Data Says About Dashay

The Social Security Administration has registered 304 babies named Dashay between 1988 and 2019, spanning 32 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dashay currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 22 babies received it in a single year. Dashay is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 24 additional births since 1991.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dashay performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 165 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Dashay shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 18 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Dashay in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dashay 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 304 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.