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Dashawn

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Dashawn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 52 births. Its best rank was 526th, in 1994.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
520.00% of boys
Peak year
1994373 births
Best rank
#526in 1994
Since 1968
9,366people given the name
Babies named Dashawn, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

8,825 boys have been named Dashawn in the United States since 1968, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1994, with 373 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2000, and the 1990s alone account for 35%. It has spent 24 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 541 girls have also been given it, 5.8% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Dashawn
1960s10
1970s300
1980s762
1990s3,124
2000s3,043
2010s1,231
2020s355

In 1994, its biggest year

Dashawn was the 526th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1994 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Tyler. See all of 1994.

Names that rose and fell with Dashawn

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.