Dashon
Dashon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 170.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 199768 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1971
- 1,642people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,609 boys have been named Dashon in the United States since 1971, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1997, with 68 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 1990s alone account for 36%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 33 girls have also been given it, 2.0% of the total.
By decade
In 1997, its biggest year
Dashon was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1997 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Christopher and Joshua. See all of 1997.
Names that rose and fell with Dashon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Davonpeak 1994
- Diondrepeak 1996
- Jihadpeak 2000
- Marquelpeak 1995
- Dandrepeak 2000
- Dariuspeak 1994
- Marquesepeak 1991
- Dejonpeak 1992
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.