girls:
33 births since 1973
#5683 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.6k births since 1971
#3079 (33rd percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1971
#6121 (21st percentile)
The name Dashon is the #6,121 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,625 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 20.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,079 (32.8% percentile) for all time with 1,592 births since 1971. For girls, it ranks #5,683 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 33 births since 1973.
Dashon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for boys and 1973 for girls).
The name Dashon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dashon reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 8.0% percentile (ranked #729) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 34 births per million (ranked 8.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dashon ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 16.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dashon reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #843) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dashon".
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Our model has identified 14 different pronunciations for the name Dashon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 20.5% confident that Dashon is pronounced as duh-SHAWN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is duh-SHAHN, at 13.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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