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Daisey vs Daishawn

American parents have registered 2,520 Daiseys since 1880, against 555 Daishawns. Daisey is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daisey against Daishawn, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daisey Daishawn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Daisey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Daisey had 28 and Daishawn had 27.

Side by side

  Daisey Daishawn
Total US births 2,520555
Most in one year 5532
Babies in 2025 20under 5
Estimated living today 1,600540
Median age today 2823
Peak year 20002001
Best rank 2,672nd girls2,864th boys
Rank in 2025 5,917thunranked
First recorded 18801988
Girls / boys 2,520 / 00 / 555

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Daiseys alive today are over 28; half the Daishawns are over 23. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Daisey and Daishawn.