Dash

Locally spelled Das in IN India, BD Bangladesh.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Dash, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Bash
• Cash
• Blaze
• Axel
• Nash

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Dash is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Mexico, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Däsh, Dásh

• French surname8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, India, United States, Cameroon

  Also written Dąsĥ, Dāsh, Dåsh, Dãsh, Däsh

• Swedish surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Sweden, Norway

  Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

  Also written Daash, Dåsh

• Ukrainian surname12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, India, United States

  Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian

  Also written Даш, Дэш, Dasch, Dāsh

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Dash is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Unofficial non-ISO 4217 currency code for the cryptocurrency Dash.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Norwegian Nynorsk, a dash (small amount)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In oj, and, and then, then

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Albanian, ram (male sheep)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Stacey Dashb. 1967USAmerican actress (born 1967)
• Subhransu Sekhar Dashb. 1972INIndian scientist
• Roscoe Dashb. 1990USAmerican rapper and singer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

42 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Where does the name Dash come from?

near an ash tree, or habitation name from a place named with the OE word cesc (see Ash). The ANF preposition de of, from, has become fused to the name. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Dash?

In India, the national register counted about 3.3 million people named Das, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Bangladesh, United States, Indonesia and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.

What does the name Dash mean?

Recorded meaning: near an ash tree, or habitation name from a place named with the OE word cesc (see Ash).

How common is the name Dash?

In India, the national register counted 3,288,116 people named Das, about 1 in 403 residents.

How common is Dash compared with other names?

In India, Dash is the 75th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.