Dash vs Dason
American parents have registered 4,384 Dashes since 1880, against 623 Dasons. Dash is still ahead, with 207 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Dash Dason
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 47 years in which either name was published, Dash for 24 years and Dason for 23 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.
Side by side
| Dash | Dason | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 4,384 | 623 |
| Most in one year | 327 | 29 |
| Babies in 2025 | 207 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 4,400 | 610 |
| Median age today | 7 | 18 |
| Peak year | 2017 | 2006 |
| Best rank | 741st boys | 3,524th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,056th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1984 | 1972 |
| Girls / boys | 87 / 4,297 | 0 / 623 |
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 Dasons alive today are over 18; half the Dashes are over 7. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dash and Dason.