| The girl name Dallas [ 2 syll. dal-las, da-ll-as ] is also used as a boy name, with the latter form being more popular. It is pronounced DAELahS KEY. Dallas' origin is Scottish, and its use, English. The meaning of Dallas is 'resting place, dweller in the dale'. It represents the transferred use of the geographic name and the surname as a given name. See Dallas for more info. Dallas is uncommon as a baby girl name. At the modest height of its usage in 1994, 0.024% of baby girls were named Dallas. It was #527 in rank then. The baby name has substantially slipped in popularity since then, and is used only on an infrequent scale today. Within all girl names in its family, Dallas was nevertheless the most popular in 2007. Dallas has primarily been a boy name in the last century. In 2000, 4 times more boys than girls were given the name Dallas. Baby names that sound like Dallas include the Turkish Dilek, the English Dulcie, and the Spanish Dulce. KEY: Pronunciation for Dallas: D as in "dee (D.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; S as in "sea (S.IY)"
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