Dashon
Dashon was given to 6 boys in 2025, #10,955 among boys’ names; 1,648 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,600 Americans named Dashon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 20 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dashon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dashon?
#10,955 among boys’ names, 2025
Dashon fell from #7,166 in 2015 to #10,955 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.7 to 3.5 per million.
69 babies in 1993, the peak
Dashon peaked in 1993, when 69 babies were given it (63 boys, #1,470 among boys’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,955 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,482 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,843 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,757 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,723 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,764 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,912 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,363 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 22 | #4,497 | 11.9 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,176 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #7,166 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,101 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,353 | 11.6 |
| 2012 | 30 | #3,549 | 15.8 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,253 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 34 | #3,257 | 17.7 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,312 | 11.6 |
| 2008 | 32 | #3,430 | 15.7 |
| 2007 | 46 | #2,656 | 22.2 |
| 2006 | 45 | #2,626 | 21.9 |
| 2005 | 49 | #2,372 | 24.5 |
| 2004 | 40 | #2,650 | 20.2 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,127 | 26.3 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,131 | 25.8 |
| 2001 | 65 | #1,745 | 33.5 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,090 | 24.4 |
| 1999 | 59 | #1,733 | 30.7 |
| 1998 | 60 | #1,703 | 31.4 |
| 1997 | 68 | #1,520 | 36.1 |
| 1996 | 53 | #1,743 | 28.0 |
| 1995 | 58 | #1,583 | 30.5 |
| 1994 | 58 | #1,581 | 30.0 |
| 1993 | 63 | #1,470 | 32.1 |
| 1992 | 61 | #1,487 | 30.5 |
| 1991 | 45 | #1,770 | 22.3 |
| 1990 | 58 | #1,484 | 28.2 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,370 | 14.0 |
| 1988 | 29 | #2,149 | 15.1 |
| 1987 | 28 | #2,125 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,531 | 11.4 |
| 1985 | 16 | #2,973 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,310 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 22 | #2,288 | 12.3 |
| 1982 | 19 | #2,528 | 10.5 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,224 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,135 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,209 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 9 | #3,927 | 5.5 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,073 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,315 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,660 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,274 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 18 | #2,246 | 11.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,552 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,513 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dashon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,648 Americans recorded as Dashon, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 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 Dashon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dashon, and how old are they?
1,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,648 Americans ever recorded as Dashon. The median Dashon alive today is 28 years old; half are between 20 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,098 people named Dashon (57 women and girls, 1,041 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,552 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% 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 | 111 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 578 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 711 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 197 |
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 Dashon born?
The states with the most babies named Dashon are New Jersey, North Carolina and Illinois, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 139 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| North Carolina | 54 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 39 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 38 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 37 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 22 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 20 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| South Carolina | 12 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Dashon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dashon is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1971 it was given 2.9 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 Dashon 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,886 babies since 1880, Dashon is the second most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 27 babies (22%), again the second 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 Dashon
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 Dashon and names like it
- Compare Dashon and DashaunBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDashon peaked in 1993.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dashon since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Dashon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dashon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.