Dashay
Dashay was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 328 Americans have been recorded with it between 1988 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dashay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dashay?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,125, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1996, the peak
Dashay peaked in 1996, when 28 babies were given it (22 girls, #4,618 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #16,125 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,481 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,951 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,201 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,291 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,663 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,147 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,210 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,039 | 5.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,104 | 4.3 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 13 | #8,376 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,845 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,670 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,905 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,700 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,254 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,418 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,943 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,618 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,164 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,559 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,346 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,779 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,061 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,612 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,577 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,675 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dashay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 328 Americans recorded as Dashay, 93% are girls and 7% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dashay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dashay, and how old are they?
An estimated 322 Americans named Dashay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 23 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 319 people named Dashay (269 women and girls, 50 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 323 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,748 babies since 1880, Dashay is the sixth most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 151 babies recorded by SSA was a Dashay (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Dashay
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 Dashay and names like it
- Compare Dashay and DaishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDashay peaked in 1996.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dashay since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Dashay.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dashay alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.