In 2025, 61 US boys were named Dashiell, making it the 2,291st most common boys’ name of the year, down 232 places from #2,059 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 73 boys named Dashiell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,105, reached in 2015. That year also had the most boys given the name: 174. For comparison, it was #1,105 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dashiell in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 13 babies. In all, 2,851 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,267 babies named Dashiell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 954 US boys were named Dashiell; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 146. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,001 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dashiell ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #1,680 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Dashel, Dashiel and Dashell are summarised on this page.