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Dashanti vs Dasia

American parents have registered 5,392 Dasias since 1880, against 187 Dashantis. Dasia is still ahead, with 17 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dashanti against Dasia, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dashanti Dasia

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

Dasia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1982 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Dashanti had 55 and Dasia had 297.

Side by side

  Dashanti Dasia
Total US births 1875,392
Most in one year 55315
Babies in 2025 under 517
Estimated living today 1905,300
Median age today 2123
Peak year 20021997
Best rank 2,745th girls686th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked6,546th
First recorded 20021982
Girls / boys 187 / 05,392 / 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 Dasias alive today are over 23; half the Dashantis are over 21. That is 2 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: Dashanti and Dasia.