The name Dalton is of English origin, and means town in a valley.
The table below indicates the number of times the name Dalton has been given to baby boys in recent years.
The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.
The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.
Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Dalton
Use of the Name Dalton for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years
50 Years
25 Years
10 Years
5 Years
2 Years
1 Year
61,615
55,990
54,335
38,379
16,879
5,273
2,425
The table below indicates the number of times the name Dalton has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004.
Dalton first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1881, which is the first year shown on the table.
A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.
Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Dalton
Used as a Boy Name
Used as a Girl Name
Year
Rank
Count
Rank
Count
1881
897
5
1882
1883
1884
876
6
1885
717
8
1886
1887
1888
1889
899
6
1890
1891
1892
1893
783
8
1894
571
13
1895
649
11
1896
915
7
1897
867
7
1898
904
7
1899
1900
631
16
1901
1902
617
13
1903
803
9
1904
898
8
1905
753
11
1906
945
8
1907
746
13
1908
664
16
1909
725
15
1910
623
22
1911
652
23
1912
568
50
1913
552
61
1914
628
65
1915
594
93
1916
521
120
1917
546
115
1918
593
106
1919
541
122
1920
504
144
1921
511
146
1922
491
160
1923
513
141
1924
544
136
1925
454
176
1926
497
147
1927
480
159
1928
535
129
1929
506
134
1930
502
141
1931
471
144
1932
449
158
1933
465
144
1934
476
143
1935
455
155
1936
461
149
1937
480
140
1938
536
118
1939
520
121
1940
508
129
1941
493
140
1942
551
124
1943
537
137
1944
573
114
1945
598
102
1946
561
129
1947
596
130
1948
608
124
1949
622
120
1950
695
97
1951
641
121
1952
637
121
1953
735
94
1954
741
94
1955
722
103
1956
760
93
1957
765
96
1958
739
99
1959
790
94
1960
802
90
1961
886
74
1962
821
86
1963
835
82
1964
754
103
1965
1966
904
64
1967
777
88
1968
825
80
1969
757
106
1970
858
88
1971
847
92
1972
950
72
1973
972
69
1974
1975
1976
1977
982
76
1978
1979
1980
1981
969
86
1982
932
92
1983
837
108
1984
849
107
1985
778
129
1986
717
159
1987
650
198
1988
642
217
1989
473
402
1990
193
1,569
1991
136
2,351
1992
121
2,903
1993
106
3,390
1994
85
4,245
1995
87
4,187
1996
99
3,979
1997
90
4,235
1998
88
4,561
1999
85
4,538
2000
91
4,441
2001
98
3,888
2002
117
3,277
2003
143
2,848
2004
166
2,425
Totals:
61,615
0
During the last 125 years, parents have used Dalton as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name.
Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Dalton appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 107 times during the last 125 years.