Dash
Below 5 births
2025 SSA
About Dash
Dash is a nickname that can stand on its own and sounds, well, dashing. Connected these days with Kardashian enterprises.
Dash for boys#1056 US
Dash can stand on its own—as is evidenced by its entry into the US Top 1000 in 2014—or as a nickname for Dashiell.
Dash for girls
For a boy, Dash is usually short for Dashiell, but as a girl's name it just stands for energetic--and also the stores run by the Kardashian sisters..
Pronounced DASH.
As of November 2026, Dash ranked #1056 for boys in US births in 2025 and #15876 for girls in US births in 2022 SSA, peaked at #741 for boys in 2017 and #8113 for girls in 2015.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #939 | 224 | 116.6 |
| 2015 | #769 | 310 | 161.7 |
| 2016 | #777 | 307 | 161.8 |
| 2017 | #741 | 322 | 174 |
| 2018 | #784 | 292 | 160.8 |
| 2019 | #750 | 318 | 177.2 |
| 2020 | #797 | 291 | 168.6 |
| 2021 | #790 | 311 | 177.8 |
| 2022 | #825 | 301 | 172.4 |
| 2023 | #893 | 260 | 152 |
| 2024 | #967 | 232 | 134.7 |
| 2025 | #1,056 | 207 | 121.2 |
World rankings
Dash for boys
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Famous Dashs
- Dashiell Raymond "Dash" MihokBoy
American actor
- Dashiell "Dash" SnowBoy
American artist
- Theodore "Dash" HardeenBoy
Hungarian magician and escape artist; younger brother of Harry Houdini
- Dash WilderBoy
ring name of Daniel Marshall Wheeler, American pro wrestler
- Dashiell "Dash" CooperBoy
son of singer Alice Cooper
- Dash Day (b. 2012)Boy
son of golfer Jason Day
- Dash Exeter (b. 2012)Boy
son of Canadian TV presenter Marci Ien and Lloyd Exeter
- Dashiel "Dash" Marquet Sayre (b. 2014)Boy
son of Singaporean blogger XiaXue
- Dash Michael Tompkins (b. 2015)Boy
son of YouTuber and singer Mike Tompkins
- Dashel Pierce "Dash" Packham (b. 2007)Boy
son of actress/comedienne Nicole Sullivan and Jason Packham
- Mason Dash DisickBoy
son of TV personality Kourtney Kardashian
- Jack DashBoy
British trade,union activist
- Dascha "Dash" PolancoGirl
Dominican,American actress
- Dash ChisakoGirl
ring name of Chisako Jumonji, Japanese pro wrestler
Dash in pop culture
- Dash GoffBoy
character on TV's "Designing Women" played by Gerald McRaney
- Dash GoffBoy
The Writer is the name of an episode on the 2nd season of TV's "Designing Women" about the character Dash Goff who is a Southern novelist
- Dash RendarBoy
character in the Star Wars Legends series
- Dashiell Robert "Dash" ParrBoy
character in the movie "The Incredibles"
- DashBoy
character in the movie "Casper's Scare School"
- Dash DeWittBoy
character on TV's "Hart of Dixie"
- DashiellBoy
"Dash," character in "Dash and Lily's Book of Dares" by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
- Dash HosneyBoy
character on TV's "Red Band Society"
- DashBoy
character in the Transformers series
- Dash BaxterBoy
character in animated series Danny Phantom
- Dash BoardmanBoy
character in Pixar's Cars
- Dash RiprockBoy
character on TV's The Beverly Hillbillies
- DashBoy
childhood pet spaniel of Queen Victoria
- DashBoy
chain of clothing stores owned by the Kardashian sisters
- DashBoy
terrorist group (technically Daesh, but now simply referred to as Dash)
- Rainbow DashGirl
a character on "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic"
- "Comtesse DashGirl
" a 19th,century French novelist
- Mrs. DashGirl
a spice company
Variations & nicknames
- Dash (pronounced like Dosh) - means 'taker of the moment'BoyMongolian