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Dallis

Gender
Mostly girls
Say it
DAL-is
Origin
Scottish
US rank, 2025
#6,324 for girls

Dallis is a name of Scottish origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).

What does Dallis mean?

Scottish: spelling of Dallas, a Scottish place-name surname

A spelling of Dallas, a Scottish surname from a village in Moray; it also evokes the Texas city.

Is Dallis a girl's or a boy's name?

In recent years, Dallis has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls and 11 boys in the US.

How popular is Dallis in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,324among girls
Babies in 2025
18about 1 in 89,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 30% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 18 girls in the US were named Dallis, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,625th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 58 girls. It first appears in the records in 1918. 11 boys were also named Dallis in 2025 (7,190th for boys).

Half of all the girls named Dallis in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 431 girls in the US were given Dallis or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #666, up from #6,324 for this spelling alone.

In 2023, 77% of the babies named Dallis in the US were girls.

1918Busiest: 58 in 20132025
Dallis in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202518#6,324
202418#6,391
202324#5,245
202216#6,979
202118#6,409
202017#6,625
201937#3,922
201832#4,356
201724#5,336
201631#4,530
201545#3,478
201455#3,039
201358#2,902
201226#5,251
201118#6,852
201023#5,769
200917#7,338
200813#8,961
200718#7,088
200620#6,354
200521#5,795
200418#6,484
200315#7,202
200215#7,039
200120#5,565
200025#4,644
199923#4,713
199821#4,951
199731#3,623
199630#3,627
199529#3,665
199412#7,091
19939#8,712
199213#6,645
19915#13,139
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19825#10,514
19810–
19800–
19790–
19780–
19770–
19760–
19750–
19740–
19730–
19725#8,290
19710–
19700–
19690–
19680–
19670–
19660–
19650–
19640–
19630–
19620–
19610–
19600–
19590–
19580–
19570–
19560–
19550–
19547#4,653
19530–
19520–
19510–
19500–
19490–
19480–
19470–
19460–
19450–
19440–
19435#4,690
19425#4,620
19410–
19405#4,347
19390–
19380–
19370–
19360–
19350–
19340–
19330–
19320–
19310–
19300–
19290–
19280–
19270–
19260–
19250–
19240–
19235#4,966
19220–
19210–
19200–
19190–
19185#4,807

Nicknames for Dallis

Names like Dallis

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Dallis

Names related to Dallis

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Dallis: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dallis, updated 20 October 2026.