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Dashaun vs Dassie

American parents have registered 2,920 Dashauns since 1880, against 12 Dassies. Dashaun is still ahead, with 21 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dashaun Dassie

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 53 years in which either name was published, Dashaun for 51 years and Dassie for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Dashaun Dassie
Total US births 2,92012
Most in one year 1387
Babies in 2025 21under 5
Estimated living today 2,9000
Median age today 23103
Peak year 20071888
Best rank 1,272nd boys1,036th girls
Rank in 2025 4,707thunranked
First recorded 19711888
Girls / boys 32 / 2,88812 / 0

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 Dassies alive today are over 103; half the Dashauns are over 23. That is 80 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: Dashaun and Dassie.