Dayshawn
Dayshawn was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,297 among boys’ names; 1,361 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,330 Americans named Dayshawn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 17 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dayshawn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dayshawn?
#7,297 among boys’ names, 2025
Dayshawn fell from #5,796 in 2015 to #7,297 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.8 to 6.4 per million.
71 babies in 2005, the peak
Dayshawn peaked in 2005, when 71 boys were given it, #1,815 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,297 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,892 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,714 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,678 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,094 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,375 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,497 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,309 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,581 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,254 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #5,796 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,570 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,084 | 12.7 |
| 2012 | 29 | #3,630 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,129 | 12.6 |
| 2010 | 39 | #2,972 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 55 | #2,357 | 27.7 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,067 | 32.8 |
| 2007 | 56 | #2,311 | 27.0 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,110 | 30.2 |
| 2005 | 71 | #1,815 | 35.5 |
| 2004 | 61 | #1,975 | 30.7 |
| 2003 | 60 | #1,938 | 30.4 |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,046 | 27.3 |
| 2001 | 45 | #2,250 | 23.2 |
| 2000 | 52 | #1,969 | 26.5 |
| 1999 | 43 | #2,171 | 22.4 |
| 1998 | 61 | #1,680 | 31.9 |
| 1997 | 59 | #1,671 | 31.3 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,075 | 21.6 |
| 1995 | 49 | #1,778 | 25.7 |
| 1994 | 46 | #1,848 | 23.8 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,011 | 20.4 |
| 1992 | 30 | #2,415 | 15.0 |
| 1991 | 33 | #2,190 | 16.3 |
| 1990 | 26 | #2,561 | 12.7 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,843 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,231 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,280 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,954 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,454 | 11.1 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,682 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dayshawn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dayshawn has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 42 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dayshawn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dayshawn, and how old are they?
1,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,361 Americans ever recorded as Dayshawn. The median Dayshawn alive today is 23 years old; half are between 17 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 979 people named Dayshawn (38 women and girls, 941 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,264 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 316 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 823 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 188 |
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 Dayshawn born?
The states with the most babies named Dayshawn are New York, Michigan and Ohio, with 67% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 188 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Michigan | 32 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 27 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Maryland | 22 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 19 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Dayshawn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dayshawn is most over-represented in New York: since 1980 it was given 2.2 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 Dayshawn 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, Dayshawn is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 81 babies (14%), 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 Dayshawn
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 Dayshawn and names like it
- Compare Dayshawn and DashawnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDayshawn peaked in 2005.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dayshawn since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Dayshawn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dayshawn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.