Dason
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dason has been given to 623 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 29 recorded.
Babies named Dason, 2024
1 in 557,000
Dason over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Dason?
Dason had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 287,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dason sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dason. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dasons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dason was born before 2007 — so the typical Dason is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 36.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 77.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 623
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (230).
Is Dason 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2006 (29)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.7% average annual change
Spellings of Dason
Dason is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 27.7% against Dason's 0.02%.
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 Dason is used
Across 1910–2025, Dason was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 407,034 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 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. Dason has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dason around the world
Where Dason 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.
- Canada2001–2010#2,163in 2010
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Dason by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Dason
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dason
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.