How rare is the name Dashawn?

6,112 people in the United States have the first name Dashawn, about 1 in 49,416. It ranks #3,418 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

DASHAWN

#3,418

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,112
About
1 in 49,416
This common or more
82.3%
Who bears it

Of the 6,112 people named Dashawn, 84% reported their origin as Black, 8.6% as two or more races and 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino. 94.2% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Dashawn peaked in 1994, when 401 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19682025
Peak year
1994
Births that year
401
In 2025*
52 ▼87%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 9,421 babies have been given the name since 1968. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Dashawn by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,225. The largest share of babies named Dashawn, 49.9%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1960s#10,40434
1970s#3,313419
1980s#2,353881
1990s#1,2253,346
2000s#1,4973,100
2010s#3,1031,231
2020s#4,548410
Generation X 1965–805.3%
Millennials 1981–9632.9%
Generation Z 1997–1249.9%
2013 and later11.8%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Dashawn is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Dashawn has been most common in Maryland (3.8×), South Carolina (3.3×), and New Jersey (2.5×), and least common in Tennessee (0.31×).

7,058 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Dashawn

#3,416 Lyudmila · 6,130#3,417 Anand · 6,114#3,419 Digna · 6,108#3,420 Shan · 6,106

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Dashawn, most common first.

#7,220 Dashaun · 2,134#11,615 Dashon · 1,098#12,640 Dayshawn · 979#12,973 Dasean · 942#18,057 Daeshawn · 601#21,391 Dasan · 475#23,266 Daishawn · 422#24,497 Dashun · 393

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