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Dale

Pronounced /deɪl/

Rank in 2024
#1,307
Born in 2024
149
Peak year
1958 · #46
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 149 boys were named Dale, about 1 in every 11,512.
  • It peaked in 1958 with 8,503 babies, ranked #46.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1881.
  • 278,018 boys have been named Dale since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Dale per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 1.6
    Greatest
  2. 3.0
    Silent
  3. 3.5
    Boomers
  4. 1.4
    Gen X
  5. 0.5
    Millennials
  6. 0.2
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 26,284 babies, 1.57 per 1,000. Silent: 61,374 babies, 2.97 per 1,000. Boomers: 130,935 babies, 3.49 per 1,000. Gen X: 37,633 babies, 1.38 per 1,000. Millennials: 14,034 babies, 0.46 per 1,000. Gen Z: 5,577 babies, 0.18 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,725 babies, 0.08 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
  • A female given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/deɪl/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Dale, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

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    Doyle

    Rank
    #7,603
    Born '24
    11
    Origin
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    1880peak 19312024