Meaning not yet researched.
Dash: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 207 in 2025. Its best rank was #741 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #741 in 2017; #1,056 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dash in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,056 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #741.
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Dash: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 207 boys in 2025. Peak: #741 in 2017 · most boys in one year: 322 (2017).
In 2025, 207 US boys were named Dash, making it the 1,056th most common boys’ name of the year, down 101 places from #955 in 2024. That is 31 fewer than the 238 boys named Dash in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #741, reached in 2017. That year also had the most boys given the name: 322. For comparison, it was #769 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dash in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1984 with 6 babies. In all, 4,384 US babies have been given the name, 2.0% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,395 babies named Dash.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,847 US boys were named Dash; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 322. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,252 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dash ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #404 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Daz, Daise and Daze are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Daz (23), Daise (21), Daze (15), Dayse (7).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Dash in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 12 | #404 | #368 |
| Utah | 6 | #634 | #260 |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #674 | #715 |
| Illinois | 12 | #721 | #916 |
| Georgia | 13 | #721 | #856 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #770 | #680 |
| Colorado | 6 | #786 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #879 | #924 |
| Arizona | 5 | #948 | #636 |
| California | 21 | #1,018 | #865 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,019 | #1,007 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,056 | #849 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,067 | #598 |
| New York | 10 | #1,143 | #1,261 |
| Texas | 16 | #1,259 | #950 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,681 | #883 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 207 | #1,056 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,899 | 238 | #955 |
| 2023 | — | — | 260 | #893 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,890 | 301 | #826 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,513 | 311 | #791 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,471 | 291 | #797 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,625 | 318 | #751 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,776 | 292 | #784 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,485 | 322 | #741 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,515 | 307 | #777 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,114 | 310 | #769 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,209 | 224 | #939 |
| 2013 | — | — | 158 | #1,146 |
| 2012 | — | — | 146 | #1,218 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,298 | 135 | #1,272 |
| 2010 | — | — | 123 | #1,372 |
| 2009 | — | — | 82 | #1,811 |
| 2008 | — | — | 74 | #1,938 |
| 2007 | — | — | 49 | #2,540 |
| 2006 | — | — | 46 | #2,591 |
| 2005 | — | — | 35 | #2,970 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,159 |
| 2003 | — | — | 8 | #8,019 |
| 2002 | — | — | 6 | #9,634 |
| 2001 | — | — | 8 | #7,694 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #7,594 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,306 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #8,689 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,156 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #5,899 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #5,736 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).