How popular is “Dallas” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dallas” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Dallas” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Dallas” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Dallas” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Dallas” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Dallas” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dallas” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	20	0.000099263		20	-100%
1881	25	0.000129743		25	-100%
1882	27	0.000121878		27	-100%
1883	19	0.000087579		19	-100%
1884	19	0.000078041		19	-100%
1885	20	0.000083038		20	-100%
1886	25	0.000097918		25	-100%
1887	16	0.000064675		16	-100%
1888	30	0.000100176		30	-100%
1889	33	0.000114208		33	-100%
1890	32	0.000106171		32	-100%
1891	33	0.000115114		33	-100%
1892	39	0.000116636	9	30	-54%
1893	26	0.000079945		26	-100%
1894	31	0.000091529	6	25	-61%
1895	33	0.000094012		33	-100%
1896	36	0.000100704	7	29	-61%
1897	36	0.000103759		36	-100%
1898	28	0.000073403		28	-100%
1899	31	0.000091382	6	25	-61%
1900	49	0.000108826	9	40	-63%
1901	29	0.000083861		29	-100%
1902	31	0.000080159		31	-100%
1903	48	0.000125918	9	39	-63%
1904	47	0.000116485	9	38	-62%
1905	52	0.000122664	12	40	-54%
1906	49	0.000114365	8	41	-67%
1907	56	0.000120329	7	49	-75%
1908	62	0.00012688	14	48	-55%
1909	69	0.00013497	11	58	-68%
1910	79	0.000133737	20	59	-49%
1911	70	0.000108649	19	51	-46%
1912	159	0.000160921	24	135	-70%
1913	142	0.000124878	16	126	-77%
1914	211	0.000148975	28	183	-73%
1915	296	0.000161534	30	266	-80%
1916	293	0.000151467	38	255	-74%
1917	291	0.000145011	26	265	-82%
1918	365	0.000168117	35	330	-81%
1919	328	0.000155432	27	301	-84%
1920	381	0.000168387	31	350	-84%
1921	407	0.000174341	35	372	-83%
1922	414	0.000180853	34	380	-84%
1923	397	0.000172423	45	352	-77%
1924	373	0.000156617	45	328	-76%
1925	412	0.000176574	42	370	-80%
1926	460	0.000200357	34	426	-85%
1927	459	0.0001979	43	416	-81%
1928	412	0.000182225	37	375	-82%
1929	429	0.000195697	30	399	-86%
1930	419	0.00018846	37	382	-82%
1931	443	0.000210513	32	411	-86%
1932	451	0.000213613	33	418	-85%
1933	418	0.000209058	35	383	-83%
1934	424	0.000204159	21	403	-90%
1935	441	0.000211015	31	410	-86%
1936	386	0.000185793	25	361	-87%
1937	433	0.000203222	26	407	-88%
1938	590	0.000266658	38	552	-87%
1939	544	0.000246886	34	510	-88%
1940	507	0.000220178	22	485	-91%
1941	504	0.00020686	19	485	-92%
1942	525	0.00019218	45	480	-83%
1943	527	0.00018671	35	492	-87%
1944	450	0.000167281	34	416	-85%
1945	413	0.000155678	32	381	-85%
1946	418	0.000130817	36	382	-83%
1947	463	0.000128528	30	433	-87%
1948	468	0.000135553	33	435	-86%
1949	394	0.000113063	25	369	-87%
1950	436	0.000124452	22	414	-90%
1951	478	0.000129759	43	435	-82%
1952	469	0.000123486	47	422	-80%
1953	507	0.000131564	52	455	-79%
1954	453	0.000113799	48	405	-79%
1955	456	0.000113572	38	418	-83%
1956	440	0.000106717	29	411	-87%
1957	399	0.000094952	31	368	-84%
1958	398	0.000096277	32	366	-84%
1959	402	0.000096681	32	370	-84%
1960	394	0.000094853	44	350	-78%
1961	362	0.000087391	21	341	-88%
1962	385	0.000095406	31	354	-84%
1963	386	0.000097519	27	359	-86%
1964	363	0.000093374	29	334	-84%
1965	339	0.000093506	19	320	-89%
1966	331	0.000095234	30	301	-82%
1967	293	0.000086306	20	273	-86%
1968	339	0.000100343	37	302	-78%
1969	337	0.000096969	36	301	-79%
1970	429	0.000118951	72	357	-66%
1971	397	0.000115664	47	350	-76%
1972	345	0.000109768	41	304	-76%
1973	323	0.000107064	44	279	-73%
1974	327	0.000107566	36	291	-78%
1975	377	0.000124859	35	342	-81%
1976	381	0.000125564	54	327	-72%
1977	390	0.000122777	53	337	-73%
1978	547	0.000172345	84	463	-69%
1979	719	0.000216111	110	609	-69%
1980	797	0.000231383	117	680	-71%
1981	706	0.000204083	119	587	-66%
1982	620	0.000176741	86	534	-72%
1983	539	0.00015563	80	459	-70%
1984	661	0.000189466	110	551	-67%
1985	647	0.000181278	85	562	-74%
1986	628	0.000176549	91	537	-71%
1987	661	0.000183325	99	562	-70%
1988	714	0.000193232	123	591	-66%
1989	700	0.000182081	110	590	-69%
1990	697	0.000176345	106	591	-70%
1991	796	0.000204351	103	693	-74%
1992	1246	0.000324372	351	895	-44%
1993	1606	0.000425963	450	1156	-44%
1994	1771	0.000476376	467	1304	-47%
1995	1821	0.000497248	447	1374	-51%
1996	1728	0.000473789	438	1290	-49%
1997	1526	0.000420879	343	1183	-55%
1998	1293	0.00035153	286	1007	-56%
1999	1186	0.000321073	236	950	-60%
2000	1187	0.000314029	243	944	-59%
2001	1087	0.000290379	209	878	-62%
2002	1013	0.000270979	209	804	-59%
2003	871	0.000229071	187	684	-57%
2004	976	0.000255436	188	788	-61%
2005	992	0.000258008	178	814	-64%
2006	1071	0.000270715	207	864	-61%
2007	1148	0.000287166	199	949	-65%
2008	1189	0.000302493	197	992	-67%
2009	1147	0.000300248	213	934	-63%
2010	1225	0.000331463	221	1004	-64%
2011	1198	0.00032752	236	962	-61%
2012	1273	0.000348065	289	984	-55%
2013	1626	0.000446009	459	1167	-44%
2014	1891	0.000510202	525	1366	-44%
2015	1971	0.000532571	551	1420	-44%
2016	1706	0.000465015	482	1224	-43%
2017	1923	0.000537722	522	1401	-46%
2018	1704	0.000484656	474	1230	-44%
2019	1743	0.00050217	508	1235	-42%
2020	1724	0.000516078	458	1266	-47%
2021	1751	0.000516832	465	1286	-47%
2022	1813	0.000535893	458	1355	-49%
2023	1866	0.000563543	484	1382	-48%
2024	1892	0.000568424	444	1448	-53%

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