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.

# 252 in the US

Dallas Rank in US Top 1000

# 749 on Nameberry

Dallas Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Dallas Popularity

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’

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"