girls:
32 births since 1981
#5684 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.8k births since 1971
#2360 (49th percentile)
overall:
2.9k births since 1971
#5042 (35th percentile)
The name Dashaun is the #5,042 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,877 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 34.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 34.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,360 (48.5% percentile) for all time with 2,845 births since 1971. For girls, it ranks #5,684 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 32 births since 1981.
Dashaun first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for boys and 1981 for girls). Birth data for Dashaun is available in 49 out of the 53 years between 1971 and 2023 (49 years for boys and 6 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 Dashaun has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dashaun reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 15.1% percentile (ranked #750) with 62 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 62 births per million (ranked 15.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Dashaun ranks #897 for boys (1.5% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 16.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dashaun reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #849) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dashaun".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Dashaun. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.0% confident that Dashaun is pronounced as duh-SHAWN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is duh-SHAHN, at 22.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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