girls:
76 births since 2011
#5640 (1st percentile)
boys:
3.8k births since 1984
#1995 (56th percentile)
overall:
3.9k births since 1984
#4389 (43rd percentile)
The name Dash is the #4,389 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,920 recorded births since 1984. This represents the 43.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 43.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,995 (56.5% percentile) for all time with 3,844 births since 1984. For girls, it ranks #5,640 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 76 births since 2011.
Dash first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1984 (1984 for boys and 2011 for girls). Birth data for Dash is available in 29 out of the 40 years between 1984 and 2023 (29 years for boys and 9 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Dash has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dash reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 33.2% percentile (ranked #611) with 163 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 166 births per million (ranked 31.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dash ranks #663 for boys (27.3% percentile) with 139 births per million, which is 83.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dash reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #951) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dash".
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