Dale
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning valley.
Dale by the numbers
In 2025, 7 babies in England and Wales were named Dale. In the US, 155 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 8,482 babies in 1958, so it is a 1950s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Dale. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Dale
Names that are said the same way as Dale, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Dal6 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean a meadow or field
Like Dale, each of these has a meadow or field in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Rileyvaliant; rye clearing7,797 in the US (2017)
- Braydenbroad valley; a modern respelling of Braden5,153 in the US (2017)
- Bentleymeadow of bent grass3,945 in the US (2017)
- Haydenvalley with hay3,623 in the US (2017)
- Wesleywestern meadow3,607 in the US (2017)
- Ryleerye clearing; a respelling of Ryley2,971 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Dale
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