# Dallas (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dallas/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “dweller at the house in the dale”, “meadow”, “haugh”, “abode” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈdæləs/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 87,085 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 71,203 / 15,882 (18% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 354, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

# 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”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 236 | 1,047 |
| 2012 | 289 | 904 |
| 2013 | 459 | 612 |
| 2014 | 525 | 580 |
| 2015 | 551 | 562 |
| 2016 | 482 | 621 |
| 2017 | 522 | 580 |
| 2018 | 474 | 630 |
| 2019 | 508 | 598 |
| 2020 | 459 | 632 |
| 2021 | 466 | 636 |
| 2022 | 458 | 642 |
| 2023 | 484 | 617 |
| 2024 | 446 | 657 |
| 2025 | 413 | 687 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 962 | 326 |
| 2012 | 984 | 321 |
| 2013 | 1,168 | 301 |
| 2014 | 1,366 | 270 |
| 2015 | 1,420 | 255 |
| 2016 | 1,224 | 296 |
| 2017 | 1,401 | 260 |
| 2018 | 1,231 | 286 |
| 2019 | 1,235 | 283 |
| 2020 | 1,267 | 269 |
| 2021 | 1,287 | 270 |
| 2022 | 1,359 | 253 |
| 2023 | 1,383 | 252 |
| 2024 | 1,453 | 243 |
| 2025 | 1,475 | 238 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 4 | 4,564 |
| 2010 | 3 | 5,707 |
| 2012 | 5 | 4,171 |
| 2013 | 4 | 4,739 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 3 | 5,730 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,609 |
| 2017 | 5 | 4,063 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,985 |
| 2019 | 5 | 4,001 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,615 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,942 |
| 2022 | 9 | 2,673 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2,771 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2,605 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2012 | 14 | 1,669 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,403 |
| 2014 | 12 | 1,819 |
| 2015 | 13 | 1,786 |
| 2016 | 14 | 1,704 |
| 2017 | 7 | 2,734 |
| 2018 | 7 | 2,693 |
| 2019 | 10 | 2,104 |
| 2020 | 15 | 1,548 |
| 2021 | 12 | 1,860 |
| 2022 | 7 | 2,755 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2,007 |
| 2024 | 10 | 2,263 |
| 2025 | 22 | 1,276 |

## In other languages

- Chinese: 达拉斯, 達拉斯 /达拉斯
- Russian: Да́ллас
- Arabic: دَالَاس
- Bulgarian: Да́лас
- Esperanto: Dallas
- Finnish: Dallas
- Georgian: დალასი
- German: Dallas
- Greek: Ντάλλας
- Hebrew: דאלאס
- Japanese: ダラス
- Korean: 달라스
- Latin: Dallāsium
- Lithuanian: Dalasas
- Polish: Dallas
- Portuguese: Dallas
- Turkish: Dallas

## People named Dallas

- Bryce Dallas Howard, American actress and filmmaker (born 1981)
- Diamond Dallas Page, American professional wrestler and actor
- Dallas Long, American shot putter (1940–2024)
- Dallas Robert, American actor (born 1970)
- Dallas Liu, American actor
- Dallas Austin, American musician, songwriter, record producer, and film producer
- Dallas Green, Canadian musician
- Dallas Keuchel, American professional baseball player
- Dallas Braden, former American Pitcher
- Dallas Taylor, American rock drummer (1948–2015)
- Dallas Drake, Canadian ice hockey player
- Dallas Eakins, American ice hockey player and coach

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.