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Dacian

#12,434 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Dacian has been given to 306 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #12,434 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Dacian, 2025

1 in 663,000

Dacian over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dacian: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dacian means

Dacian is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Dacian is used in Old Czech.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old Czech, Dacian is pronounced /ˈdat͡sian/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 306 boys were recorded with the name Dacian between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2012; its best national rank was #4,568 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,776 in 2020 to #12,434 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,171 in 2015 to #12,434 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dacian?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,434
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dacian sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dacian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dacians were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dacian was born before 2010 — so the typical Dacian is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
306
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.9% of all recorded uses (116).

Is Dacian rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−3,975
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,658
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,263
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
23.8%
Peak was 2012 (21)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,568
2012

Spellings of Dacian

Dacian is not the most common spelling — Damian is, with 21.7% against Dacian's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dacian is used

Across 1910–2025, Dacian was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dacian has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dacian around the world

Where Dacian ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Dacian by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,434
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,658
Best rank ever
#4,568
2012
Peak year
2012
21 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
306
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Dacian

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Dacian

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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