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Dallas vs Dallon

American parents have registered 87,085 Dallases since 1880, against 685 Dallons. Dallas is still ahead, with 1,888 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dallas against Dallon, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dallas Dallon

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Dallas has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Dallas had 1,186 and Dallon had 30.

Side by side

  Dallas Dallon
Total US births 87,085685
Most in one year 1,97130
Babies in 2025 1,8887
Estimated living today 70,000670
Median age today 2323
Peak year 20251999
Best rank 238th boys2,795th boys
Rank in 2025 238th9,714th
First recorded 18801958
Girls / boys 15,882 / 71,2030 / 685

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dallas and Dallon.