Dallas

Place name, surname and Irish

"meadow dwelling, valley house, skilled"

Dallas Origin and Meaning

The name Dallas is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "meadow dwelling, valley house, skilled".

A laid-back cowboy name which feels both cool and gentle, Dallas has ranked in the US Top 500 since records began in 1880. Never super popular but surprisingly never out of style, Dallas is given to nearly 1400 boys in the US every year.

Although Dallas is often associated with the city in Texas, named for Vice President George M. Dallas, it's also: a Scottish place name with the meaning "meadow dwelling"; an English surname, meaning "valley house" and possibly an Irish name, meaning "skilled, assembly, council, or, blindness" depending on the translation.

Today, Dallas is a gender neutral option too, though it is still given to nearly three times as many boys as girls. Currently a Top 300 choice Dallas meets a number of recent name trends: fresh though well established, a last name that works easily as a first name, and complete with an outdoorsy, nature-inspired meaning.

Dallas Rank in US Top 1000

# 252 in the US

Dallas Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 704 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Dallas

• 252 US 2023
• 704 Nameberry 2025
• 36 Unisex 2023
• 188 Future 2028

20 Names Similar to Dallas

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• Cruz
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• Bayler
• Gage
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• Harley
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Famous People Named Dallas

• Dallas Clark American NFL football player
• Dallas Reynolds American NFL football player
• Dallas Lauderdale American basketball player
• Dallas Cook American musician of band Suburban Legends
• Dallas Green aka City & Color Canadian singer,songwriter
• Dallas Frederick Burrows birth name of Orson Bean, American actor
• Dallas Roberts American actor
• Dallas Raines American TV meteorologist
• Dallas Austin American musician and producer
• Dallas Frederick Durst (b. 2001) son of Limp Bizkit lead singer Fred Durst
• Dallas Xavier Barrino (b. 2011) son of singer Fantasia Barrino
• River Rocket Blue Dallas Oliver (b. 2016) son of celebrity chefs Jamie and Jools Oliver
• Cameron Dallas YouTuber and Viner
• Matt Dallas American actor
• Dallas Smith Canadian Country Music singer,songwriter
• Dallas Derrico son of Karen and Deon Derrico, twin featured on TLC’s ‘Doubling Down with the Derricos’

The name Dallas in Pop Culture

• Dallas "Dally" Winston character from the book/movie "The Outsiders"
• Dallas McLure character from "Gone With the Wind"
• Dallas Carmel character from "Sims" series
• Dallas character in the House of Night series
• Korben Dallas character in The Fifth Element
• "Dallas " TV series based in Dallas
• Dallas city in Texas and 9th most populated in the United States
• Dallas character on movie "Alien"