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Dallas

Pronounced /ˈdæləs/

Rank in 2024
#243
Born in 2024
1,448
Peak year
2024 · #243
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:444 in 2024 (#658)

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 1,448 boys were named Dallas, about 1 in every 1,185.
  • 2024 is its biggest year on record.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 69,713 boys have been named Dallas since 1880.

Who else has this name

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

  1. 0.3
    Greatest
  2. 0.4
    Silent
  3. 0.2
    Boomers
  4. 0.2
    Gen X
  5. 0.4
    Millennials
  6. 0.5
    Gen Z
  7. 0.7
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 5,338 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Silent: 7,750 babies, 0.38 per 1,000. Boomers: 7,421 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Gen X: 5,836 babies, 0.21 per 1,000. Millennials: 12,276 babies, 0.40 per 1,000. Gen Z: 14,741 babies, 0.47 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 15,780 babies, 0.73 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

The Texas city was named after George M. Dallas, vice president to Polk; family name is evolved from dalhous (13th c.), meaning "dweller at the house in the dale," from dale + house. The Scottish place-name is from Pictish, equivalent to Welsh dôl (“meadow, haugh”) + gwas (“abode”).

  • A male given name transferred from the place name.
Origin
Not recorded
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Dallas, CC BY-SA 4.0.