Boy · Old English
Dalton
Say it: DAWL-tun
Meaning
From an English surname taken from several places named Dalton, Old English dæl 'valley' and tūn 'farmstead'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A surname name popular for American boys in the 1990s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1990s
In the United States
- 82,928 babies given this name since 1881
- At its height in 1998, about 1 in 419 boys
- 637 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter
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Where this comes from
- English poll taxes and lay subsidy rolls (13th and 14th centuries)
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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