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Daksh vs Dakston

American parents have registered 759 Dakshes since 1880, against 20 Dakstons. Daksh is still ahead, with 35 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daksh against Dakston, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daksh Dakston

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Daksh has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2004 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2017, when Daksh had 40 and Dakston had 13.

Side by side

  Daksh Dakston
Total US births 75920
Most in one year 6013
Babies in 2025 35under 5
Estimated living today 75020
Median age today 98
Peak year 20192017
Best rank 2,292nd boys6,338th boys
Rank in 2025 3,314thunranked
First recorded 20042017
Girls / boys 0 / 7590 / 20

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Daksh and Dakston.