Baby name
STABLE
🇺🇸 Dashiell
/duh · SHEEL/
Meaning
“Possibly a French surname, meaning unknown”
Possibly an Anglicized form of the French surname 'de Chiel', of unknown original meaning. It was the maiden name of the mother of American crime writer Dashiell Hammett, an old Maryland family whose surname was de Chiel in French; Hammett's use of it as his own given name popularized Dashiell as a first name.
Nicknames
dash
Vibe
cooldistinctive
How it ages.
A literary surname-name carried mainly by fans of hard-boiled crime fiction; a distinctive choice rather than a common one.
The cultural moment.
Rare in the United States; used mainly by parents drawn to its literary link to novelist Dashiell Hammett rather than as a common mainstream choice.