The surname Dashiell
A surname, carried by 1,596 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex D240 Also a first name
Origin
French de Chiel.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,596 people named Dashiell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 193,450 Americans. That is up 3.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,536.
#17,605
rank among US surnames
1,596
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+3.9%
change since 2000 (was #17,054)
Who is named Dashiell
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
61% of people named Dashiell identified as white (not Hispanic), 32% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.4% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 61%
- Black (not Hispanic) 32%
- Two or more races 3.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Dashiell
Dashiell has the Soundex code D240, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D240.
Questions
- Where does the surname Dashiell come from?
- French de Chiel.
- How common is the surname Dashiell?
- 1,596 people in the United States had the surname Dashiell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 193,450 Americans. It ranked 17,605th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Dashiell?
- In the 2010 Census, 61% of people named Dashiell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 32% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Dashiell getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,536 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,596 in 2010, up 3.9%.
- Is Dashiell also a first name?
- Yes. Dashiell is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.