girls:
15k births since 1892
#1245 (78th percentile)
boys:
68.2k births since 1880
#399 (91st percentile)
overall:
83.3k births since 1880
#777 (90th percentile)
The name Dallas is the #777 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 83,254 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 90.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #399 (91.3% percentile) for all time with 68,239 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #1,245 (78.2% percentile) for all time with 15,015 births since 1892.
Dallas has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1892 for girls).
The name Dallas has been given predominantly to boys, with 82.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 74.0% of babies named Dallas were boys.
For boys, Dallas reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 74.0% percentile (ranked #241) with 722 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 751 births per million (ranked 73.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Dallas is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #246 (73.1% percentile) with 751 births per million.
For girls, Dallas reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 48.9% percentile (ranked #491) with 282 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 282 births per million (ranked 48.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Dallas is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #518 (45.3% percentile) with 276 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dallas".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Dallas. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Dallas is pronounced as DA-luhs, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like D AE1 L AH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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