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Dasha

#2,128 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Darya

Dasha has been given to 4,133 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #2,128 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 135 recorded.

Babies named Dasha, 2025

1 in 37,700

Dasha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dasha: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Darya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dasha means

Dasha is a diminutive of Darya.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Dasha is a diminutive of Darya. Darya has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Dasha is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Darya and Darja.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,133 girls were recorded with the name Dasha between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 135 in 1995; its best national rank was #1,252 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,155 in 2020 to #2,128 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,063 in 2015 to #2,128 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 Dasha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 37,700
88 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 18,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,128
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
26,114 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dasha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 5001%

Put another way: gather 26,114 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dasha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dashas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dasha was born before 2004 — so the typical Dasha is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
25.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,133
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 25.7% of all recorded uses (1,062).

Is Dasha 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
−272
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,027
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−65
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.93×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.2%
Peak was 1995 (135)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,252
1995

Spellings of Dasha

Dasha is not the most common spelling — Dana is, with 25.1% against Dasha's 0.54%.

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 Dasha is used

Across 2016–2025, Dasha was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 18,589 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 9,091
  2. 2Florida1 in 10,000
  3. 3New York1 in 11,111
  4. 4California1 in 16,667
  5. 5Texas1 in 16,667
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 25,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 25,000
  8. 8Colorado1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Dasha around the world

Where Dasha 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
    2000–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2004–2004
    #677
    in 2004
  • France
    2012–2025
    #5,117
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1956–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Dasha in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Dasha. Linked forms have their own page here.

DariaDaryaDeryaTarjaDaschaDarjaDariiaDarija

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Dasha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,128
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,027
Best rank ever
#1,252
1995
Peak year
1995
135 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,133
Count in 2025
88

Names similar to Dasha

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

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Names with a curve like Dasha

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dasha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Dasha

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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