Dashiel
Dashiel was given to 22 boys in 2025, #4,572 among boys’ names; 452 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dashiel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dashiel?
#4,572 among boys’ names, 2025
Dashiel rose from #5,341 in 2015 to #4,572 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 8.9 to 12.9 per million.
34 babies in 2016, the peak
Dashiel peaked in 2016, when 34 boys were given it, #3,307 among boys’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,572 | 12.9 |
| 2024 | 23 | #4,460 | 13.3 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,987 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,372 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,826 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,763 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,202 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,780 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,130 | 13.5 |
| 2016 | 34 | #3,307 | 17.9 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #5,341 | 8.9 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,917 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,019 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,573 | 11.1 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,693 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 25 | #4,016 | 13.0 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,375 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,828 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,202 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,352 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,345 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,740 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,364 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,052 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,934 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,388 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,651 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,106 | 2.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,635 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,475 | 3.0 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,169 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dashiel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dashiel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dashiel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dashiel, and how old are they?
An estimated 447 Americans named Dashiel 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 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 417 people named Dashiel (23 women and girls, 394 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 354 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Dashiel rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Dashiel?
Dashiel is a less common spelling of Dashiell: SSA has recorded 452 Dashiel and 2,851 Dashiell since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,097 babies since 1880, Dashiel is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 104 babies (21%), the second 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 Dashiel
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 Dashiel and names like it
- Compare Dashiel and DashiellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDashiel peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dashiel since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Dashiel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dashiel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.