Dallas

Where Dallas comes from

# 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”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Dallas
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #381 among boys — 20 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1940
    Dallas Long born
    American shot putter
  3. 1970
    Dallas Robert born
    American actor
  4. 1995
    Peak, #214
    1,374 babies named Dallas — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2003
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #384.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the place name.
Namesakes
  • Dallas Long · American shot putter, 1940–2024
  • Dallas Robert · American actor, born 1970
  • Dallas Liu · American actor, born 2001
  • Dallas Austin · American musician, songwriter, record producer, and film producer, born 1970
  • Dallas Bixler · gymnast, 1910–1990

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.