Dash

At the 2020 census, 4,224 Americans bore the surname Dash — 7,580th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 70,800.

By the numbers

People: 4,224
Rank: 7,580th
How common: 1 in 70,800
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

From Old French de + Old English æsċ "(residing) near an ash tree".

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Dash described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 35.9%
Black, not Hispanic 30.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 26.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Dash

Stacey Dash (born 1967)American actress
Kalpana Dash (1966–2019)Indian mountaineer
Julie Dash (born 1952)American filmmaker
Damon Dash (born 1971)American music executive

People named Dash with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Dash

Also a first name

Dash has been given to 4,384 American babies as a first name since 1984, peaking in 2017. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.