Dalton

girls:

420 births since 1916

#5296 (7th percentile)

boys:

84.3k births since 1881

#343 (93rd percentile)

overall:

84.7k births since 1881

#762 (90th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dalton".

1881 2023 18812023

Key Statistics

Total Births
420
Peak Births
32
Peak Year
2004
First Recorded
1916
Peak Percentile
2.9%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#573
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
84,260
Peak Births
4,563
Peak Year
1999
First Recorded
1881
Peak Percentile
89.4%
Current Percentile
50.1%
Peak Rank
#86
Current Rank
#455
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Dalton

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Dalton. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 90.0% confident that Dalton is pronounced as DAWL-tuhn. The next most likely pronunciation is DAHL-tuhn, at 10.0% confidence.

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DAWL-tuhn (2 syllables)
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D AO1 L T AH0 N
DAHL-tuhn (2 syllables)
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D AA1 L T AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Dalton. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Dalton, please vote using the thumbs up button.

DAH-lihn (2 syllables)
3 names 522 births
D AA1 L IH0 N
DAWL-tihn (2 syllables)
2 names 518 births
D AO1 L T IH0 N

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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like D AO1 L T AH0 N) 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.