Dayshon
Dayshon was last recorded in 2012, when 6 babies were given it; 233 Americans have been recorded with it between 1986 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dayshon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dayshon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,111, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 2000, the peak
Dayshon peaked in 2000, when 20 boys were given it, #3,942 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #11,111 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,716 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,062 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,322 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 10 | #7,814 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,206 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,550 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,310 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,557 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,832 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 10 | #6,642 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,184 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 20 | #3,942 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,050 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,549 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,752 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,639 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,320 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 15 | #4,127 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,972 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,368 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,483 | 3.0 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,965 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dayshon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dayshon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dayshon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dayshon, and how old are they?
An estimated 228 Americans named Dayshon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 20 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 195 people named Dayshon (14 women and girls, 181 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 229 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 3,341 babies since 1880, Dayshon is the fourth most given (7.0% of them).
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 Dayshon
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 Dayshon and names like it
- Compare Dayshon and DashonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDayshon peaked in 2000.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Dayshon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dayshon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.