Dallas
Dallas reached its high-water mark in 2025 at number 238, and has been recorded 87,085 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 238th. About 70,000 Dallases are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Dallas boys named Dallas
Girls and boys called Dallas
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 15,882 girls and 71,203 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 413 to 1,475.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 141 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 87,085
- Estimated living today
- 70,000
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 238th
- Rank in 2025
- 238th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 15,882 / 71,203
How old the living Dallases are
born that year still alive today
Of the 87,085 babies given the name since 1880, about 70,000 are alive — 80 in every hundred. Roughly 29,000 of them are children and 6,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a place name
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Dallass
- Bryce Dallas Howard (born 1981)American actress and filmmaker
- Dallas Long (1940–2024)American shot putter
- Diamond Dallas Page (born 1956)American professional wrestler and actor
- Dallas Roberts (born 1970)American actor
- Dallas Liu (born 2001)American actor
- Dallas Austin (born 1970)American musician, songwriter, record producer, and film producer
- Dallas Bixler (1910–1990)gymnast
- Dallas Green (born 1980)Canadian musician
People named Dallas with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Dallas is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dallas is most concentrated in Utah (2.5×), West Virginia (2.3×), Kentucky (2.0×), Tennessee (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Dallas peaked:
Dallas elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Dallas | 230 | 1,276th |
| England and Wales girls | Dallas | 124 | 2,605th |
| Ireland girls | Dallas | 7 | 718th |
| Scotland boys | Dallas | 4 | 446th |
| Scotland girls | Dallas | 3 | 780th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Dallas among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Dallas | 5 | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Dallas against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.