girls:
16 births since 1979
#5700 (0th percentile)
boys:
2.7k births since 1979
#2427 (47th percentile)
overall:
2.7k births since 1979
#5172 (33rd percentile)
The name Dashiell is the #5,172 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,715 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 33.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,427 (47.1% percentile) for all time with 2,699 births since 1979. For girls, it ranks #5,700 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1979.
Dashiell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 .
The name Dashiell has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dashiell reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 18.7% percentile (ranked #736) with 85 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 85 births per million (ranked 18.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dashiell ranks #861 for boys (5.5% percentile) with 30 births per million, which is 35.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dashiell reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #906) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dashiell".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Dashiell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.5% confident that Dashiell is pronounced as DA-sheel, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is da-SHEEL, at 10.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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