Dashelly
#4,379 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dashelly has been given to 37 babies in the U.S. since 2024. In 2025 it ranked #4,379 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 32 recorded.
Babies named Dashelly, 2025
1 in 104,000
Dashelly over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Dashelly?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 104,000
- 32 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 50,200
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,379
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 71,810 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dashelly sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dashelly. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dashellys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dashelly was born before 2025 — so the typical Dashelly is around 0 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 37
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (37).
Is Dashelly rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +11,469
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (32)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Dashelly
Dashelly is not the most common spelling — Shelly is, with 87.5% against Dashelly's 0.04%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Dashelly is used
Across 1910–2025, Dashelly was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dashelly has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dashelly by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Dashelly
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dashelly
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.