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Dashaun vs Dashun

American parents have registered 2,920 Dashauns since 1880, against 521 Dashuns. Dashaun is still ahead, with 21 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dashaun Dashun

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 52 years in which either name was published, Dashaun for 50 years and Dashun for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Dashaun Dashun
Total US births 2,920521
Most in one year 13828
Babies in 2025 21under 5
Estimated living today 2,900510
Median age today 2324
Peak year 20071996
Best rank 1,272nd boys2,679th boys
Rank in 2025 4,707thunranked
First recorded 19711973
Girls / boys 32 / 2,8880 / 521

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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dashaun and Dashun.