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Dashiell

#2,291 in 2025Boys' name

From French de Chiel; literal meaning unconfirmed

Dashiell has been given to 2,851 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #2,291 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 174 recorded.

Babies named Dashiell, 2025

1 in 54,300

Dashiell over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dashiell: meaning, origin, and history

From French de Chiel; literal meaning unconfirmed

surname transfer

What Dashiell means

Dashiell is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Dashiell is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Dashiell comes through French de Chiel.

Dashiell is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,835 boys were recorded with the name Dashiell between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 174 in 2015; its best national rank was #1,105 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,635 in 2020 to #2,291 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,105 in 2015 to #2,291 in 2025.

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Dashiell between 1979 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2003; its best national rank was #10,561 in 1979.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dashiell?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 54,300
61 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 28,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,291
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,672 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dashiell sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 37,672 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dashiell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dashiells were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dashiell was born before 2012 — so the typical Dashiell is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,835
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.5% of all recorded uses (1,262).

Is Dashiell 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
−232
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−656
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,186
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.35×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.1%
Peak was 2015 (174)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,105
2015

Spellings of Dashiell

Dashiell is the most-used spelling, taking 65.0% of the 4,363 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Dashiell is used

Across 2016–2025, Dashiell was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 20,910 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 9,091
  2. 2California1 in 10,000
  3. 3New York1 in 14,286
  4. 4Virginia1 in 14,286
  5. 5Illinois1 in 20,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 25,000
  7. 7Oregon1 in 25,000
  8. 8Colorado1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Dashiell around the world

Where Dashiell ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1986–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Dashiell

People whose public names include Dashiell, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Dashiell in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Dashiell. Linked forms have their own page here.

Dash

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Dashiell by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,291
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 656
Best rank ever
#1,105
2015
Peak year
2015
174 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,835
Count in 2025
61

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,561
1979
Peak year
2003
6 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dashiell

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Dashiell

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dashiell, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

BrightonCanonChevyOskarCorbynTaydenAbdulrahmanJarielAamirBraylinAthanAtreyu

Sibling names for Dashiell

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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