Dallin
Masculine
Dallin is an English surname that became a given name in one specific American community, and its rise in the records is unusually easy to trace as a result.
How old is the name Dallin?
Dallin first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Dallin alive today was born around 2002, making them about 23 years old. About 5,100 people named Dallin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dallin most popular?
Dallin peaked in 1999, reaching #728 nationally. Today it ranks #3314, 2,586 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 Dallin
Ours, offered as ours. Dallin is a good example of a name whose history is a community's rather than a language's. It appears in American records concentrated heavily in Utah and the intermountain West, where Latter-day Saint families have long taken surnames of respected figures as given names — a practice that has produced Kimball, Spencer, Marion and Dallin alike. The English village behind the surname is real and its meaning is lost. The American name is young, well-rooted, and belongs to a place you can point to on a map.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No settled meaning. The English surname Dallin and Dalling is generally locational, from places of that name in Norfolk, whose own derivation is not agreed; a personal name Dalla with the -ing ending has been proposed. The modern given name carries the surname's association rather than any settled sense.
Pronouncing Dallin
DAL-in
Two syllables, first stressed. There is no variation.
Nicknames for Dallin
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
- 1971
- Most boys named
- 2002237 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #728reached in 1999
- Change vs 2024
- +20.7%35 in 2025, from 29
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.
Dallin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Dalling in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Utah, Idaho, California.
Dallins among us
people named Dallin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 48,802 born in 2025 was named Dallin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Dallin
- #3314
- Dallin on the 2025 chart
- #880
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Dallin went to 35 boys in 2025, but Dalyn is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 48, which makes it the 880th most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,434 places above the chart.
- Dallin35
- Dalyn13
About 1 boy in 35,585 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 48,802 for Dallin 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 Lorenza test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Dallin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lorenza climbed just as high around 1901, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lorenza's path sketches the road Dallin is walking now.
Dallin 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
Where Dallin is headed
Dallin should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Dallin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Dallin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Six letters and two syllables, easy to write early.
- It has a clear and traceable community history, which few surname-names do.
- It is strongly associated with one American region and one religious community.
- Dallin, Dallen and Dalin all appear and the spelling will be asked for.
- There is no documented meaning behind the surname.
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Frequently asked
- How many Dallins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,100 people named Dallin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Dallin?
- Dallin is the most-used spelling in US records — 35 of the 48 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Dalyn.
- How popular is the name Dallin in 2025?
- Dallin ranks #3314 among US boy names in 2025, with 35 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Dallin?
- About 1 in every 48,802 US boys born in 2025 was named Dallin — 35 in all.
- Will my child share the name Dallin with classmates?
- Dallin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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