Dalon
Masculine
Dalon is an American build with no documented parent. Its ending is shared with a word that English borrowed from French twice, a century or so apart, and ended up using for two very different rooms.
How old is the name Dalon?
Dalon first appears in US birth records in 1960 — 65 years ago. The typical Dalon alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 700 people named Dalon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dalon most popular?
Dalon peaked in 1996, reaching #2145 nationally. See the whole 1996 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Dalon
French salon means a large reception room, and English borrowed it in that sense for the gatherings hosted by literary women in Paris. English had already borrowed the same word earlier, in a slightly different form, and spelled it saloon, where it came to mean a large public room in a hotel or on a ship, and then in America a room where drink was sold. So the elegant Parisian salon and the swinging doors of a western saloon are the same French word, separated by about a century of borrowing and a considerable drop in social standing. English does this constantly with French: the early borrowing anglicizes and sinks, the later one keeps its accent and stays fashionable.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source has been documented. The front is a free syllable American naming attached widely, and the ending is one of a small set that were available to attach to it.
Pronouncing Dalon
duh-LON
Two syllables with the weight on the second. DAY-lon, with the stress in front, is also heard.
Nicknames for Dalon
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
- 1960
- Most boys named
- 199639 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2145reached in 1996
- Change vs 2023
- 0.0%7 in 2024, from 7
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.
Dalons among us
people named Dalon are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Dalon sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Dal and Lon are both available as short forms and both work on their own.
- It is short on paper and quick to write, with nothing difficult in it.
- It is rare in the record while being made of entirely familiar sounds.
- Two stress patterns are in circulation and the spelling settles neither.
- Dallon, Dalen and Dalan are all in the record and will be confused with it.
- No origin is documented, so the meaning question has nothing to answer with.
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Frequently asked
- How many Dalons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Dalon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Dalon in 2025?
- Dalon is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Dalon with classmates?
- Dalon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More D names
The most-given names starting with D, all years combined.
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