Dallas — #243 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Dallas

The Social Security Administration has registered 69,713 babies named Dallas between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dallas currently holds the #243 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 1,448 babies received it in a single year. Dallas is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 15,466 additional births since 1892.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dallas performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 11,993 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Dallas shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 4,264 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Dallas in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dallas in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 69,713 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.