Dalton
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning settlement in the valley.
How Dalton has moved
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| Year | US rank |
|---|---|
| 2015 | #328 |
| 2016 | #328 |
| 2017 | #372 |
| 2018 | #397 |
| 2019 | #445 |
| 2020 | #467 |
| 2021 | #519 |
| 2022 | #516 |
| 2023 | #513 |
| 2024 | #432 |
| 2025 | #448 |
Dalton by the numbers
In 2025, 60 babies in England and Wales were named Dalton. In the US, 886 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 4,563 babies in 1998, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
At its height, in 2000, about 1 in 470 American boys born that year was called Dalton.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Dalton. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Dalton
Names that are said the same way as Dalton, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Other names that mean a meadow or field
Like Dalton, 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 Dalton
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