Meaning not yet researched.
Dashaun: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,099 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,099 in 1998; #4,742 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dashaun in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,742 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #1,099.
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Dashaun: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,099 in 1998 · most boys in one year: 138 (2007).
In 2025, 21 US boys were named Dashaun, making it the 4,742nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 4 places from #4,738 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 21 boys named Dashaun in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,099, reached in 1998. The most boys given the name in a single year was 138, in 2007. For comparison, it was #4,427 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dashaun in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 6 babies. In all, 2,920 US babies have been given the name, 1.1% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,177 babies named Dashaun.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 246 US boys were named Dashaun; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 81,337 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dashon (1,648 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dashun, Dayshaun and Daeshaun 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dashun (521), Dayshaun (375), Daeshaun (369), Daishaun (263), Dashan (220), Dayshun (34), Daeshun (20), Daishun (15), Dashane (15), Dazhaun (10), Dashuan (9), Daizhaun (7), and more.
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 Dashaun in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 21 | #4,742 |
| 2024 | — | — | 21 | #4,738 |
| 2023 | — | — | 19 | #5,111 |
| 2022 | — | — | 31 | #3,633 |
| 2021 | — | — | 17 | #5,388 |
| 2020 | — | — | 24 | #4,169 |
| 2019 | — | — | 40 | #3,004 |
| 2018 | — | — | 28 | #3,809 |
| 2017 | — | — | 21 | #4,632 |
| 2016 | — | — | 24 | #4,220 |
| 2015 | — | — | 22 | #4,427 |
| 2014 | — | — | 42 | #2,819 |
| 2013 | — | — | 48 | #2,538 |
| 2012 | — | — | 54 | #2,363 |
| 2011 | — | — | 59 | #2,208 |
| 2010 | — | — | 69 | #1,986 |
| 2009 | — | — | 112 | #1,490 |
| 2008 | — | — | 107 | #1,517 |
| 2007 | — | — | 138 | #1,274 |
| 2006 | — | — | 133 | #1,258 |
| 2005 | — | — | 122 | #1,272 |
| 2004 | — | — | 128 | #1,196 |
| 2003 | — | — | 106 | #1,310 |
| 2002 | — | — | 105 | #1,288 |
| 2001 | — | — | 108 | #1,232 |
| 2000 | — | — | 118 | #1,165 |
| 1999 | — | — | 116 | #1,135 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,707 | 117 | #1,099 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,283 | 106 | #1,154 |
| 1996 | — | — | 90 | #1,237 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,141 | 79 | #1,319 |
| 1994 | — | — | 90 | #1,213 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,016 | 80 | #1,269 |
| 1992 | — | — | 64 | #1,438 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,866 | 80 | #1,247 |
| 1990 | — | — | 56 | #1,521 |
| 1989 | — | — | 49 | #1,621 |
| 1988 | — | — | 29 | #2,153 |
| 1987 | — | — | 36 | #1,798 |
| 1986 | — | — | 20 | #2,619 |
| 1985 | — | — | 22 | #2,371 |
| 1984 | — | — | 12 | #3,506 |
| 1983 | — | — | 19 | #2,507 |
| 1982 | — | — | 12 | #3,527 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,786 | 18 | #2,596 |
| 1980 | — | — | 21 | #2,382 |
| 1979 | — | — | 24 | #2,117 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,654 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #4,698 |
| 1976 | — | — | 11 | #3,316 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,514 |
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).