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Dashaun

#4,741 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Dashaun has been given to 2,920 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #4,741 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 138 recorded.

Babies named Dashaun, 2025

1 in 158,000

Dashaun over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dashaun: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dashaun means

Dashaun is a given name.

The naming story behind Dashaun

Wikidata records Dashaun as a given name. The entity identifier is Q121422430, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,888 boys were recorded with the name Dashaun between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 138 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,096 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,165 in 2020 to #4,741 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,425 in 2015 to #4,741 in 2025.

In the United States, 32 girls were recorded with the name Dashaun between 1981 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1991; its best national rank was #10,784 in 1981.

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.

How common is Dashaun?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,741
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dashaun 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dashaun. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dashauns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dashaun was born before 2002 — so the typical Dashaun is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
40.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,888
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 40.8% of all recorded uses (1,177).

Is Dashaun 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
−7
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−576
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−316
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.2%
Peak was 2007 (138)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,096
1998

Spellings of Dashaun

Dashaun is not the most common spelling — Shaun is, with 47.1% against Dashaun's 1.9%.

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 Dashaun is used

Across 1910–2025, Dashaun was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 90,394 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 33,333
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 33,333
  3. 3Virginia1 in 33,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 50,000
  5. 5Maryland1 in 50,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 50,000
  7. 7New York1 in 50,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 100,000

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. Dashaun has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dashaun by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,741
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 576
Best rank ever
#1,096
1998
Peak year
2007
138 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,888
Count in 2025
21

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,784
1981
Peak year
1991
6 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
1998
All-time count
32
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dashaun

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

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Names with a curve like Dashaun

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

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Sibling names for Dashaun

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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