Dashel
Dashel was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,198 among boys’ names; 698 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dashel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dashel?
#6,198 among boys’ names, 2025
Dashel fell from #2,872 in 2015 to #6,198 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 21.4 to 8.2 per million.
53 babies in 2009, the peak
Dashel peaked in 2009, when 53 boys were given it, #2,411 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,198 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,343 | 13.9 |
| 2023 | 22 | #4,624 | 12.9 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,327 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 36 | #3,254 | 20.6 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,166 | 13.9 |
| 2019 | 31 | #3,583 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 40 | #2,956 | 22.0 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,691 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | 34 | #3,306 | 17.9 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #2,872 | 21.4 |
| 2014 | 38 | #2,992 | 19.8 |
| 2013 | 45 | #2,630 | 23.8 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,723 | 23.2 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,065 | 19.5 |
| 2010 | 41 | #2,882 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 53 | #2,411 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 34 | #3,298 | 16.7 |
| 2007 | 30 | #3,525 | 14.5 |
| 2006 | 32 | #3,321 | 15.6 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,502 | 9.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dashel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dashel has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 22 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dashel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dashel, and how old are they?
An estimated 692 Americans named Dashel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 580 people named Dashel (32 women and girls, 548 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 556 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,097 babies since 1880, Dashel is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 104 babies (13%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dashel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dashel and names like it
- Compare Dashel and DashiellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDashel peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dashel since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Dashel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dashel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.