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Dasha vs Dassie

American parents have registered 4,133 Dashas since 1880, against 12 Dassies. Dasha is still ahead, with 88 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dasha Dassie

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 60 years in which either name was published, Dasha for 58 years and Dassie for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Dasha Dassie
Total US births 4,13312
Most in one year 1357
Babies in 2025 88under 5
Estimated living today 4,1000
Median age today 21103
Peak year 19951888
Best rank 1,254th girls1,036th girls
Rank in 2025 2,117thunranked
First recorded 19681888
Girls / boys 4,133 / 012 / 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 Dassies alive today are over 103; half the Dashas are over 21. That is 82 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 Dassie.