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♂ Dallas (boy)
What does Dallas mean?
Dallas 
▲ as a boys' name (also used less generally as girls' name Dallas) is pronounced DAL-iss. It is of Irish, Gaelic and Scottish origin, and the meaning of Dallas is "from the dales, the valley meadows". Place name of a village in Scotland. Also the name of the Texas city.
Variations
VARIANTS Dal, Dalles, Dallis, Delles
SEE ALSO Houston
CREATIVE FORMS(male)
(female)
MIDDLE NAME PAIRINGS
Dallas Emil (D.E.), ..
How popular is Dallas?
Dallas is a very prominent first name for men (#424 out of 1220, Top 35%) and also a very prominent last name for all people (#3698 out of 150436, Top 2%). (2000 U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS)
Dallas reached its peak rank of #214 in the U.S. in 1995, and is currently at #287. (TOP 2000 NAMES, 2018)
Which version is better?
Houston (#753 A YEAR AGO) is the only other popular varying form of Dallas (#287). These relations of Dallas reached the height of their popularity less than a decade ago (MEDIAN #532) and have remained as common to this day (#520, 6.6% LESS USAGE). Dallas has generally been the top pick of parents, although Houston appears to be getting popular too.
Similar Names
Dallas▲ is pronounced similarly to Delios, Delius and Delos. Other suggested similar-sounding names are Atlas▲, Callan▲, Callis, Callys, Claas, Colas, Daelan, Dagan, Daile, Daily, Daivat, Dajuan, Dalan, Daldalos, Dale▼, Dalen, Daley, Dallan, Dalle, Dallen, Dallin▼, Dallon, Dallton, Dalon, Dalten, Daly, Daman, Damian▲, Damyan, Dantay, Danya, Danyal, Daran, Dargan, Darian, Darias, Darius▼, Darral, Dashae, Davian, Davies, Davis▲, Daviss, Davyan, Dawes, Dawley, Daylan, Dayle, Daylon, Declan▲, Dillan▼, Dillon▼, Dimas, Dolan, Dollfus, Dylan, Dyllan, Elias▲, Elyas, Hallam, Ilias, Ilyas, Jallal, Marcas, Matias▲, Sylas▲, Tallan, Tallis, Tallys, Tamhas, Wallas and Wallis. These names tend to be less commonly used than Dallas.
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