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Dasan vs Dashiell

American parents have registered 2,851 Dashiells since 1880, against 638 Dasans. Dashiell is still ahead, with 61 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dasan against Dashiell, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dasan Dashiell

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

Of the 50 years in which either name was published, Dashiell for 46 years and Dasan for 4 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Dasan Dashiell
Total US births 6382,851
Most in one year 43179
Babies in 2025 961
Estimated living today 6302,800
Median age today 1913
Peak year 20052015
Best rank 2,567th boys1,105th boys
Rank in 2025 8,243rd2,284th
First recorded 19751979
Girls / boys 0 / 63816 / 2,835

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Dasans alive today are over 19; half the Dashiells are over 13. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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