Dalton Boy Name

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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.

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