Meaning not yet researched.
Dayshawn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,674 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,674 in 1997; #7,301 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dayshawn in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,301 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #1,674.
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Dayshawn: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,674 in 1997 · most boys in one year: 71 (2005).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Dayshawn, making it the 7,301st most common boys’ name of the year, up 596 places from #7,897 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 10 boys named Dayshawn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,674, reached in 1997. The most boys given the name in a single year was 71, in 2005. For comparison, it was #5,800 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dayshawn in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1980 with 6 babies. In all, 1,361 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 582 babies named Dayshawn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 129 US boys were named Dayshawn; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dashawn (9,421 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Dayshawn 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 | — | — | 11 | #7,301 |
| 2024 | — | — | 10 | #7,897 |
| 2023 | — | — | 16 | #5,719 |
| 2022 | — | — | 16 | #5,682 |
| 2021 | — | — | 14 | #6,099 |
| 2020 | — | — | 13 | #6,379 |
| 2019 | — | — | 13 | #6,502 |
| 2018 | — | — | 9 | #8,313 |
| 2017 | — | — | 16 | #5,585 |
| 2016 | — | — | 11 | #7,259 |
| 2015 | — | — | 15 | #5,800 |
| 2014 | — | — | 21 | #4,574 |
| 2013 | — | — | 24 | #4,086 |
| 2012 | — | — | 29 | #3,633 |
| 2011 | — | — | 24 | #4,131 |
| 2010 | — | — | 39 | #2,973 |
| 2009 | — | — | 55 | #2,358 |
| 2008 | — | — | 67 | #2,068 |
| 2007 | — | — | 56 | #2,311 |
| 2006 | — | — | 62 | #2,111 |
| 2005 | — | — | 71 | #1,819 |
| 2004 | — | — | 61 | #1,979 |
| 2003 | — | — | 60 | #1,942 |
| 2002 | — | — | 53 | #2,050 |
| 2001 | — | — | 45 | #2,254 |
| 2000 | — | — | 52 | #1,973 |
| 1999 | — | — | 43 | #2,174 |
| 1998 | — | — | 61 | #1,683 |
| 1997 | — | — | 59 | #1,674 |
| 1996 | — | — | 41 | #2,080 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,977 | 49 | #1,783 |
| 1994 | — | — | 46 | #1,853 |
| 1993 | — | — | 40 | #2,016 |
| 1992 | — | — | 30 | #2,420 |
| 1991 | — | — | 33 | #2,196 |
| 1990 | — | — | 26 | #2,566 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #3,849 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,236 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,287 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #4,959 |
| 1984 | — | — | 20 | #2,455 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #5,684 |
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).