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 [ 1 syll. da-le, dal-e ] The girl name Dale is also used as a boy name, with the latter form being far more popular. It is pronounced DEYL KEY. Dale is of English origin and it is also used mainly in English. Derived from the word dael which is of the meaning 'dale, valley'. The feminine use of the name was first promoted by the fictional Dale Evans, the heroine of Alex Raymond's comic strip Flash Gordon (1934-). See Dale for more info. Forms of the name include the Dutch Dael, the Scandinavian Daelyn, the Scandinavian Dahl, the English and Czech Dalena, the English Dalene, the English Dalenna, the Scandinavian Daly, the English Daylee, and the English Daylin. Another form of Dale is the English spelling variant Dayle. See also the related form, the English and German Dahlia. Dale is unusual as a baby girl name. Its usage peaked modestly in 1952 with 0.058% of baby girls being named Dale. It had a ranking of #236 then. The baby name has experienced a marked drop in frequency since then, and is currently of only sporadic use. Among the family of girl names directly related to Dale, the English and German Dahlia was the most commonly used in 2008. Dale has in the last century been mainly given to boys. There were 17 times more boys than girls who were named Dale in 1971. Baby names that sound like Dale include the Dutch Dael, the English Dayle, the Scandinavian Dahl, the English Dell, the name Delle, the Welsh Dil, the Welsh Dill, the Romanian Dol, the English Doll, the English and German Dahlia, the Arabic Dalal, the Arabic, English, German, Hebrew, Italian, Spanish, and Swahili Dalia, the English and German Daliah, the Scandinavian Daly, the English, Turkish, and Hebrew Dalya, the English Daylee, the Hungarian Dália, the Czech, Spanish, and English Dela, the English, Greek, Italian, German, and Spanish Delia, and the English Deliah. Details of famous persons named Dale: KEY: Pronunciation for Dale: D as in "dee (D.IY)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)"   |
