Dayson
#4,281 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dayson has been given to 930 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #4,281 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 68 recorded.
Babies named Dayson, 2025
1 in 138,000
Dayson 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Dayson?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 138,000
- 24 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 71,200
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,281
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 95,747 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dayson sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dayson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Daysons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dayson was born before 2013 — so the typical Dayson is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 47.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 930
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 47.0% of all recorded uses (437).
Is Dayson 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
- −276
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −539
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,209
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.35×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 35.3%
- Peak was 2015 (68)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.4% average annual change
Spellings of Dayson
Dayson is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 40.7% against Dayson's 0.04%.
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 Dayson is used
Across 1910–2025, Dayson was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 579,930 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Oklahoma1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Louisiana1 in —
- 4Texas1 in —
- 5Utah1 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. Dayson has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dayson around the world
Where Dayson 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.
- France2004–2019#5,860in 2019
- Canada2004–2022#2,959in 2022
- South Australia1982–1982#424in 1982
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Dayson by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Dayson
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dayson
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.