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Dasha vs Dashia

American parents have registered 4,133 Dashas since 1880, against 919 Dashias. Dasha is still ahead, with 88 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dasha Dashia

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

Dasha has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1993, when Dasha had 55 and Dashia had 30.

Side by side

  Dasha Dashia
Total US births 4,133919
Most in one year 13573
Babies in 2025 88under 5
Estimated living today 4,100900
Median age today 2128
Peak year 19951996
Best rank 1,254th girls1,947th girls
Rank in 2025 2,117thunranked
First recorded 19681973
Girls / boys 4,133 / 0919 / 0

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 Dashias alive today are over 28; half the Dashas are over 21. That is 7 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: Dasha and Dashia.