diff --git a/crates/polars-core/src/frame/mod.rs b/crates/polars-core/src/frame/mod.rs
index 34662cd0a26f..da29d8da070b 100644
--- a/crates/polars-core/src/frame/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/polars-core/src/frame/mod.rs
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ impl DataFrame {
             polars_ensure!(
                 col.len() == height,
                 ShapeMismatch: "could not create a new DataFrame: series {:?} has length {} while series {:?} has length {}",
-                columns[0].len(), height, col.name(), col.len()
+                columns[0].name(), height, col.name(), col.len()
             );
         }
 
diff --git a/py-polars/tests/unit/dataframe/test_df.py b/py-polars/tests/unit/dataframe/test_df.py
index c375e1952347..2953d018430f 100644
--- a/py-polars/tests/unit/dataframe/test_df.py
+++ b/py-polars/tests/unit/dataframe/test_df.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
     DuplicateError,
     InvalidOperationError,
     OutOfBoundsError,
+    ShapeError,
 )
 from polars.testing import (
     assert_frame_equal,
@@ -2997,3 +2998,11 @@ def test_get_column_index() -> None:
 
     with pytest.raises(ColumnNotFoundError, match="missing"):
         df.get_column_index("missing")
+
+
+def test_dataframe_creation_with_different_series_lengths_19795() -> None:
+    with pytest.raises(
+        ShapeError,
+        match='could not create a new DataFrame: series "a" has length 2 while series "b" has length 1',
+    ):
+        pl.DataFrame({"a": [1, 2], "b": [1]})