Meaning not yet researched.
Dashon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,475 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,475 in 1993; #10,959 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dashon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,959 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #1,475.
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Dashon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,475 in 1993 · most boys in one year: 68 (1997).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Dashon, making it the 10,959th most common boys’ name of the year, down 5,473 places from #5,486 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 17 boys named Dashon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,475, reached in 1993. The most boys given the name in a single year was 68, in 1997. For comparison, it was #7,171 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dashon in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 6 babies. In all, 1,648 US babies have been given the name, 2.0% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 601 babies named Dashon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 147 US boys were named Dashon; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dashaun (2,920 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dayshon, Daeshon and Daishon 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: Dayshon (233), Daeshon (178), Daishon (166), Dashone (46), Dazhon (35), Daizhon (11).
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 Dashon 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 | — | — | 6 | #10,959 |
| 2024 | — | — | 17 | #5,486 |
| 2023 | — | — | 10 | #7,848 |
| 2022 | — | — | 5 | #12,763 |
| 2021 | — | — | 10 | #7,728 |
| 2020 | — | — | 15 | #5,768 |
| 2019 | — | — | 27 | #3,915 |
| 2018 | — | — | 17 | #5,367 |
| 2017 | — | — | 22 | #4,501 |
| 2016 | — | — | 18 | #5,180 |
| 2015 | — | — | 11 | #7,171 |
| 2014 | — | — | 18 | #5,105 |
| 2013 | — | — | 22 | #4,355 |
| 2012 | — | — | 30 | #3,552 |
| 2011 | — | — | 23 | #4,255 |
| 2010 | — | — | 34 | #3,258 |
| 2009 | — | — | 23 | #4,314 |
| 2008 | — | — | 32 | #3,433 |
| 2007 | — | — | 46 | #2,656 |
| 2006 | — | — | 45 | #2,627 |
| 2005 | — | — | 49 | #2,376 |
| 2004 | — | — | 40 | #2,654 |
| 2003 | — | — | 52 | #2,131 |
| 2002 | — | — | 50 | #2,135 |
| 2001 | — | — | 65 | #1,749 |
| 2000 | — | — | 48 | #2,094 |
| 1999 | — | — | 59 | #1,736 |
| 1998 | — | — | 60 | #1,706 |
| 1997 | — | — | 68 | #1,523 |
| 1996 | — | — | 53 | #1,746 |
| 1995 | — | — | 58 | #1,588 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,846 | 58 | #1,586 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,150 | 63 | #1,475 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,806 | 61 | #1,492 |
| 1991 | — | — | 45 | #1,776 |
| 1990 | — | — | 58 | #1,489 |
| 1989 | — | — | 28 | #2,376 |
| 1988 | — | — | 29 | #2,154 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,733 | 28 | #2,129 |
| 1986 | — | — | 21 | #2,533 |
| 1985 | — | — | 16 | #2,976 |
| 1984 | — | — | 13 | #3,312 |
| 1983 | — | — | 22 | #2,289 |
| 1982 | — | — | 19 | #2,529 |
| 1981 | — | — | 9 | #4,226 |
| 1980 | — | — | 14 | #3,136 |
| 1979 | — | — | 13 | #3,210 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #3,929 |
| 1977 | — | — | 13 | #3,074 |
| 1976 | — | — | 11 | #3,317 |
| 1975 | — | — | 15 | #2,662 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,074 | 7 | #4,276 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,715 | 18 | #2,248 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,554 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,515 |
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).