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Dasia vs Dason

American parents have registered 5,392 Dasias since 1880, against 623 Dasons. Dasia is still ahead, with 17 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dasia against Dason, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dasia Dason

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 49 years in which either name was published, Dasia for 44 years and Dason for 5 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Dasia Dason
Total US births 5,392623
Most in one year 31529
Babies in 2025 17under 5
Estimated living today 5,300610
Median age today 2318
Peak year 19972006
Best rank 686th girls3,524th boys
Rank in 2025 6,546thunranked
First recorded 19821972
Girls / boys 5,392 / 00 / 623

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 Dasias alive today are over 23; half the Dasons are over 18. That is 5 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: Dasia and Dason.