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Dalhart vs Dalton

American parents have registered 86,142 Daltons since 1880, against 8 Dalharts. Dalton is still ahead, with 705 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dalhart against Dalton, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dalhart Dalton

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Dalton has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1927, when Dalhart had 8 and Dalton had 161.

Side by side

  Dalhart Dalton
Total US births 886,142
Most in one year 84,590
Babies in 2025 under 5705
Estimated living today 079,000
Median age today 9825
Peak year 19271998
Best rank 3,151st boys88th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked448th
First recorded 19271881
Girls / boys 0 / 8432 / 85,710

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Dalharts alive today are over 98; half the Daltons are over 25. That is 73 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dalhart and Dalton.