Meaning not yet researched.
Dalton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 699 in 2025. Its best rank was #85 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #85 in 1994; #448 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Dalton in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#448 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #85.
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Dalton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 699 boys in 2025. Peak: #85 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 4,565 (1998).
In 2025, 699 US boys were named Dalton, making it the 448th most common boys’ name of the year, down 15 places from #433 in 2024. That is 33 fewer than the 732 boys named Dalton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #85, reached in 1994. The most boys given the name in a single year was 4,565, in 1998. For comparison, it was #328 in 2015 and #687 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dalton in 137 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 86,142 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 36,169 babies named Dalton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,219 US boys were named Dalton; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,050. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,444 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dalton ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #147 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Daulton (1,554 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dalten, Daltyn and Daltin are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Dahl and Dal.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dalten (363), Daltyn (320), Daltin (198), Dahlton (115), Daltan (10), Dallton (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 6 | #147 | — |
| New Hampshire | 6 | #211 | — |
| Maine | 5 | #240 | — |
| Idaho | 9 | #285 | #348 |
| Louisiana | 17 | #297 | #318 |
| North Carolina | 39 | #311 | #280 |
| Tennessee | 28 | #312 | #210 |
| Mississippi | 10 | #320 | #204 |
| Virginia | 25 | #333 | #213 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #340 | #166 |
| Alabama | 16 | #342 | #224 |
| Maryland | 15 | #348 | #347 |
| Ohio | 31 | #359 | #239 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #361 | #339 |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | #364 | #279 |
| Michigan | 24 | #366 | #326 |
| Indiana | 20 | #371 | #205 |
| Missouri | 17 | #377 | #203 |
| Oregon | 10 | #383 | #290 |
| Arizona | 19 | #400 | #407 |
| Nevada | 7 | #402 | — |
| Kentucky | 12 | #411 | #126 |
| Utah | 11 | #414 | #446 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #417 | #567 |
| Colorado | 14 | #424 | #291 |
| Florida | 46 | #424 | #284 |
| Georgia | 26 | #429 | #245 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #432 | #217 |
| South Carolina | 11 | #444 | #164 |
| Minnesota | 12 | #452 | #342 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #454 | — |
| Iowa | 7 | #459 | #239 |
| New Jersey | 16 | #472 | #401 |
| Kansas | 6 | #539 | #237 |
| New York | 28 | #563 | #614 |
| Texas | 47 | #641 | #473 |
| Illinois | 14 | #646 | #471 |
| Washington | 10 | #647 | #414 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #706 | #273 |
| California | 34 | #756 | #664 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,608 | 699 | #448 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,880 | 732 | #433 |
| 2023 | — | — | 582 | #513 |
| 2022 | — | — | 574 | #516 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,890 | 566 | #519 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,329 | 638 | #464 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,106 | 686 | #445 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,259 | 799 | #397 |
| 2017 | — | — | 893 | #371 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,238 | 1,050 | #328 |
| 2015 | — | — | 1,050 | #328 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,413 | 1,118 | #312 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,067 | 1,106 | #310 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,833 | 1,232 | #285 |
| 2011 | — | — | 1,267 | #276 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,643 | 1,332 | #260 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,140 | 1,476 | #239 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,195 | 1,736 | #218 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,141 | 1,836 | #212 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,429 | 1,939 | #200 |
| 2005 | — | — | 2,256 | #180 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,308 | 2,454 | #167 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,555 | 2,857 | #143 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,934 | 3,284 | #117 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,409 | 3,895 | #98 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,685 | 4,445 | #91 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,272 | 4,541 | #86 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,394 | 4,565 | #88 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,409 | 4,238 | #90 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,109 | 3,980 | #99 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,798 | 4,191 | #87 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,560 | 4,245 | #85 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,729 | 3,393 | #106 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,535 | 2,900 | #121 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,061 | 2,357 | #136 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,448 | 1,571 | #193 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,829 | 402 | #473 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,661 | 215 | #645 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,701 | 199 | #650 |
| 1986 | — | — | 159 | #718 |
| 1985 | — | — | 129 | #782 |
| 1984 | — | — | 107 | #849 |
| 1983 | — | — | 108 | #838 |
| 1982 | — | — | 93 | #928 |
| 1981 | — | — | 87 | #965 |
| 1980 | — | — | 74 | #1,049 |
| 1979 | — | — | 70 | #1,059 |
| 1978 | — | — | 52 | #1,243 |
| 1977 | — | — | 76 | #982 |
| 1976 | — | — | 56 | #1,144 |
| 1975 | — | — | 48 | #1,233 |
| 1974 | — | — | 62 | #1,046 |
| 1973 | — | — | 70 | #965 |
| 1972 | — | — | 73 | #945 |
| 1971 | — | — | 94 | #838 |
| 1970 | — | — | 90 | #849 |
| 1969 | — | — | 108 | #752 |
| 1968 | — | — | 80 | #825 |
| 1967 | — | — | 88 | #778 |
| 1966 | — | — | 64 | #903 |
| 1965 | — | — | 54 | #1,004 |
| 1964 | — | — | 103 | #753 |
| 1963 | — | — | 83 | #831 |
| 1962 | — | — | 85 | #825 |
| 1961 | — | — | 75 | #883 |
| 1960 | — | — | 91 | #799 |
| 1959 | — | — | 95 | #789 |
| 1958 | — | — | 97 | #749 |
| 1957 | — | — | 98 | #759 |
| 1956 | — | — | 94 | #756 |
| 1955 | — | — | 102 | #723 |
| 1954 | — | — | 92 | #746 |
| 1953 | — | — | 97 | #727 |
| 1952 | — | — | 119 | #643 |
| 1951 | — | — | 122 | #641 |
| 1950 | — | — | 99 | #687 |
| 1949 | — | — | 118 | #628 |
| 1948 | — | — | 125 | #608 |
| 1947 | — | — | 128 | #600 |
| 1946 | — | — | 131 | #558 |
| 1945 | — | — | 104 | #597 |
| 1944 | — | — | 115 | #573 |
| 1943 | — | — | 137 | #536 |
| 1942 | — | — | 126 | #548 |
| 1941 | — | — | 140 | #493 |
| 1940 | — | — | 128 | #511 |
| 1939 | — | — | 123 | #512 |
| 1938 | — | — | 118 | #537 |
| 1937 | — | — | 140 | #480 |
| 1936 | — | — | 150 | #459 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,343 | 157 | #453 |
| 1934 | — | — | 143 | #475 |
| 1933 | — | — | 143 | #467 |
| 1932 | — | — | 159 | #446 |
| 1931 | — | — | 145 | #471 |
| 1930 | — | — | 143 | #498 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,717 | 131 | #514 |
| 1928 | — | — | 128 | #538 |
| 1927 | — | — | 161 | #480 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,991 | 145 | #502 |
| 1925 | — | — | 177 | #453 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,238 | 140 | #532 |
| 1923 | — | — | 138 | #519 |
| 1922 | — | — | 159 | #493 |
| 1921 | — | — | 147 | #511 |
| 1920 | — | — | 143 | #509 |
| 1919 | — | — | 123 | #539 |
| 1918 | — | — | 106 | #593 |
| 1917 | — | — | 113 | #554 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,572 | 121 | #517 |
| 1915 | — | — | 93 | #593 |
| 1914 | — | — | 66 | #623 |
| 1913 | — | — | 61 | #552 |
| 1912 | — | — | 50 | #568 |
| 1911 | — | — | 23 | #653 |
| 1910 | — | — | 22 | #627 |
| 1909 | — | — | 15 | #725 |
| 1908 | — | — | 16 | #663 |
| 1907 | — | — | 13 | #746 |
| 1906 | — | — | 8 | #944 |
| 1905 | — | — | 11 | #751 |
| 1904 | — | — | 8 | #897 |
| 1903 | — | — | 9 | #802 |
| 1902 | — | — | 13 | #617 |
| 1900 | — | — | 16 | #631 |
| 1898 | — | — | 7 | #904 |
| 1897 | — | — | 7 | #865 |
| 1896 | — | — | 7 | #915 |
| 1895 | — | — | 11 | #649 |
| 1894 | — | — | 13 | #571 |
| 1893 | — | — | 8 | #782 |
| 1892 | — | — | 5 | #1,103 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #1,036 |
| 1889 | — | — | 6 | #899 |
| 1885 | — | — | 8 | #717 |
| 1884 | — | — | 6 | #876 |
| 1881 | — | — | 5 | #897 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).