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Dasha vs Dashon

American parents have registered 4,133 Dashas since 1880, against 1,648 Dashons. Dasha is still ahead, with 88 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dasha against Dashon, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dasha Dashon

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 58 years in which either name was published, Dasha for 55 years and Dashon for 3 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Dasha Dashon
Total US births 4,1331,648
Most in one year 13569
Babies in 2025 886
Estimated living today 4,1001,600
Median age today 2127
Peak year 19951997
Best rank 1,254th girls1,519th boys
Rank in 2025 2,117th10,695th
First recorded 19681971
Girls / boys 4,133 / 033 / 1,615

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 Dashons alive today are over 27; half the Dashas are over 21. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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