Dasani
Feminine
Dasani is given to both — 1,172 girls and 444 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Dasani was made up by a branding firm. Coca-Cola launched the water in 1999 with a name designed to sound as though it came from somewhere, and it does not; the company has said the name was chosen for its associations rather than for any meaning.
How old is the name Dasani?
Dasani first appears in US birth records in 1999 — 26 years ago. The typical Dasani alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 1,200 people named Dasani are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dasani most popular?
Dasani peaked in 2002, reaching #1732 nationally. Today it ranks #6838, 5,106 places below that high. See the whole 2002 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Dasani
Brand names of this kind are engineered to sound meaningful and to mean nothing, because a real word carries associations that cannot be controlled and a coined one carries only what the advertising puts into it. Dasani, Verizon, Altria and Acura are all products of that method. What is interesting here is what happened next: within three years the name was being given to children, and American records show a clear peak in 2002. Naming a child after a product is not new, and Chevrolet, Mercedes and Camry all appear in these records, but those are at least named after people. Dasani is named after nothing at all, which makes it one of the few names on this site with a documented birthday and no ancestry whatever.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Dasani was coined for a bottled-water brand introduced in 1999 and has no source language. The syllables were selected to suggest freshness and purity without denoting them. Glosses offered from Sanskrit, Swahili or Italian are invented after the fact; there is no word in any of those languages that the name derives from.
Pronouncing Dasani
duh-SAH-nee
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The brand's own pronunciation is the same, which is unsurprising given it was designed.
Nicknames for Dasani
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1999
- Most girls named
- 2002105 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1732reached in 2002
- Change vs 2024
- +23.1%16 in 2025, from 13
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Dasani in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Dassani in English — spelling variant
- Desani in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, North Carolina.
Dasanis among us
people named Dasani are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 100,454 born in 2025 was named Dasani
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Dasani
- #6838
- Dasani on the 2025 chart
- #939
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Dasani went to 16 girls in 2025, but Dasanii is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 21, which makes it the 939th most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,899 places above the chart.
- Dasani16
- Dasanii5
About 1 girl in 76,537 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 100,454 for Dasani itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Lourie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Dasani's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lourie climbed just as high around 1962, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lourie's path sketches the road Dasani is walking now.
Dasani sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Dasani beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Dasani in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Three open syllables and no clusters, so it is very easy to say.
- Spelled the way it sounds, with no silent letters.
- Distinctive without being difficult.
- It is the name of a widely sold bottled water.
- The name was engineered to have no meaning, and it has none.
- It is closely dated to the early 2000s in American ears.
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Frequently asked
- How many Dasanis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Dasani are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Dasani?
- Dasani is the most-used spelling in US records — 16 of the 21 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Dasanii.
- How popular is the name Dasani in 2025?
- Dasani ranks #6838 among US girl names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Dasani?
- About 1 in every 100,454 US girls born in 2025 was named Dasani — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Dasani with classmates?
- Dasani will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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