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Dajon vs Dajuan

American parents have registered 3,525 Dajuans since 1880, against 1,795 Dajons. Dajuan is still ahead, with 18 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dajon against Dajuan, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dajon Dajuan

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

Of the 57 years in which either name was published, Dajuan for 56 years and Dajon for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Dajon Dajuan
Total US births 1,7953,525
Most in one year 98136
Babies in 2025 1418
Estimated living today 1,8003,400
Median age today 2527
Peak year 19992001
Best rank 1,259th boys1,059th boys
Rank in 2025 6,143rd5,208th
First recorded 19801969
Girls / boys 70 / 1,7250 / 3,525

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 Dajuans alive today are over 27; half the Dajons are over 25. That is 2 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: Dajon and Dajuan.