Dashiell
Dashiell was given to 61 boys in 2025, #2,291 among boys’ names; 2,851 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,810 Americans named Dashiell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dashiell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dashiell mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dashiell is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
French de Chiel.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dashiell?
#2,291 among boys’ names, 2025
Dashiell fell from #1,105 in 2015 to #2,291 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 90.8 to 35.7 per million.
179 babies in 2015, the peak
Dashiell peaked in 2015, when 179 babies were given it (174 boys, #1,105 among boys’ names). The 61 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,291 | 35.7 |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,059 | 42.4 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,396 | 33.3 |
| 2022 | 92 | #1,784 | 52.7 |
| 2021 | 107 | #1,598 | 61.2 |
| 2020 | 98 | #1,635 | 56.8 |
| 2019 | 104 | #1,593 | 58.0 |
| 2018 | 121 | #1,446 | 66.6 |
| 2017 | 95 | #1,663 | 51.3 |
| 2016 | 146 | #1,254 | 76.9 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 174 | #1,105 | 90.8 |
| 2014 | 127 | #1,350 | 66.1 |
| 2013 | 122 | #1,379 | 64.5 |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,579 | 52.7 |
| 2011 | 127 | #1,335 | 66.9 |
| 2010 | 146 | #1,214 | 76.1 |
| 2009 | 117 | #1,436 | 59.0 |
| 2008 | 109 | #1,497 | 53.4 |
| 2007 | 92 | #1,659 | 44.3 |
| 2006 | 112 | #1,410 | 54.5 |
| 2005 | 87 | #1,586 | 43.6 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,022 | 29.7 |
| 2003 | 40 | #2,549 | 20.2 |
| 2002 | 35 | #2,701 | 18.0 |
| 2001 | 27 | #3,241 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 27 | #3,160 | 13.7 |
| 1999 | 31 | #2,735 | 16.1 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,208 | 12.6 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,769 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,565 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 24 | #2,935 | 12.6 |
| 1994 | 28 | #2,630 | 14.5 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,060 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,145 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,354 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,874 | 10.7 |
| 1989 | 32 | #2,158 | 16.0 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,383 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,271 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,025 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 19 | #2,618 | 10.3 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,754 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 21 | #2,351 | 11.7 |
| 1982 | 15 | #2,999 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,925 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,217 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,494 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dashiell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dashiell has been given almost only to boys: 16 girls in 47 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dashiell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dashiell, and how old are they?
2,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,851 Americans ever recorded as Dashiell. The median Dashiell alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 2,316 people named Dashiell (64 women and girls, 2,252 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,359 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 20 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 276 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,140 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,370 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Dashiell born?
The states with the most babies named Dashiell are Texas, California and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #1,680 | 0.4× |
| California | 9 | #1,719 | 2.0× |
| New York | 5 | #1,822 | 1.4× |
Where Dashiell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dashiell is most over-represented in California: since 1979 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dashiell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,097 babies since 1880, Dashiell is the most given (70% of them). In 2025 it was given to 61 of their 104 babies (59%), again the most given.
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 Dashiell
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 Dashiell and names like it
- Compare Dashiell and DashelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDashiell peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dashiell since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Dashiell: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Dashiell.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dashiell alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.