Dallen
Masculine
Dallen is a modern American name with a distinctly regional shape: it appears most heavily in Utah and the Mountain West, and it belongs to a family of names — Dallin, Dallen, Kalyn, Dayne — that Latter-day Saint communities have used far more than the country as a whole.
How old is the name Dallen?
Dallen first appears in US birth records in 1959 — 66 years ago. The typical Dallen alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 1,200 people named Dallen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dallen most popular?
Dallen peaked in 1999, reaching #2098 nationally. Today it ranks #5399, 3,301 places below that high. See the whole 1999 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Dallen
American naming has strong regional grammars and Utah's is the most studied of them. Researchers have repeatedly found that names in the Mountain West are both more inventive and more internally consistent than the national average — a distinctive set of blends, prefixes and respellings that circulate locally long before, or instead of, appearing nationally. Dallen sits inside that. So do Dallin, Braxlee, Kaysen, Ryker and a long list of others, and Dallin in particular has been carried in Latter-day Saint communities by Dallin H. Oaks, a former justice of the Utah Supreme Court and a senior church leader since 1984. Dallen's American peak in 1999 is modest nationally and considerably larger inside its region, which is the signature of a regional name rather than a national one.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source establishes an etymology. The name is generally treated as a variant of Dallin or Dallan; Irish Dallán, a diminutive of dall, blind, is a genuine early Irish name borne by the poet Dallán Forgaill, and no source connects it to the American name. A formation on Dallas or on the -allen rhyme family is equally plausible and equally undocumented.
Pronouncing Dallen
DAL-in
Two syllables, stress on the first. The final syllable is reduced, which is why Dallin and Dallen are interchangeable in speech.
Nicknames for Dallen
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1959
- Most boys named
- 200853 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2098reached in 1999
- Change vs 2024
- −37.0%17 in 2025, from 27
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Dallens among us
people named Dallen are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 100,475 born in 2025 was named Dallen
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Dallen
- #5399
- Dallen on the 2025 chart
- #896
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Dallen went to 17 boys in 2025, but Dalen is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 32, which makes it the 896th most-given boys’ name of the year — 4,503 places above the chart.
- Dallen17
- Dalen15
About 1 boy in 53,377 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 100,475 for Dallen itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Obryan test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Dallen's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Obryan climbed just as high around 1984, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Obryan's path sketches the road Dallen is walking now.
Dallen sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Dallen beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Dallen in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is easy to say and to spell after one hearing.
- Allen sits inside it as a familiar and complete name.
- It is uncommon nationally without being unreadable.
- Dallin is the commoner spelling and will be written for it.
- There is no established meaning behind it.
- It reads as regionally specific to anyone who knows American naming.
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Frequently asked
- How many Dallens are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Dallen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Dallen?
- Dallen is the most-used spelling in US records — 17 of the 32 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Dalen.
- How popular is the name Dallen in 2025?
- Dallen ranks #5399 among US boy names in 2025, with 17 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Dallen?
- About 1 in every 100,475 US boys born in 2025 was named Dallen — 17 in all.
- Will my child share the name Dallen with classmates?
- Dallen will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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