US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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Dalton name popularity

Dalton has been given to 86,142 babies in the United States since 1881.

It peaked in 1998, when 4,590 babies got the name, and its best rank was #156 in 1998.

In 2025, 705 babies were named Dalton (#896 in the country), 85% below the peak. That is down 33% from 2015.

Almost every Dalton is a boy.

An estimated 80K people named Dalton are alive in the US today, with a median age of 26.

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The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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