Dashton

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 8 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
8
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Dashton by the numbers

Dashton was given to 8 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 10 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Dashton

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Dashton. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Dashon22 in the US (2017)
  • Daston5 in the US (2017)
  • Daxtonson of David; a modern patronymic form992 in the US (2017)
  • Daltonsettlement in the valley886 in the US (2017)
  • Daytonsettlement on the river Dae271 in the US (2017)
  • Daultonsettlement in the valley; a place name15 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Dashton

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