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Dashawn vs Dassie

American parents have registered 9,421 Dashawns since 1880, against 12 Dassies. Dashawn is still ahead, with 52 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dashawn against Dassie, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dashawn 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, Dashawn for 58 years and Dassie for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Dashawn Dassie
Total US births 9,42112
Most in one year 4017
Babies in 2025 52under 5
Estimated living today 9,2000
Median age today 25103
Peak year 19941888
Best rank 524th boys1,036th girls
Rank in 2025 2,539thunranked
First recorded 19681888
Girls / boys 541 / 8,88012 / 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 Dashawns are over 25. That is 78 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: Dashawn and Dassie.