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The name Dale is of English origin, and means one who lives in a valley or dale. The table below indicates the number of times the name Dale has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Dale**
Use of the Name Dale for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
274,010	126,893	18,912	4,786	2,240	756	351

The table below indicates the number of times the name Dale has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Dale first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1881, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Dale**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1881	806	6
1882	770	7
1883	565	11
1884	623	10
1885	347	25
1886	434	17
1887	555	11	967	7
1888	509	15
1889	418	19
1890	516	14
1891	432	17
1892	407	22
1893	436	18
1894	340	28
1895	371	26	998	11
1896	313	36
1897	290	39
1898	286	41
1899	268	41
1900	277	56	946	16
1901	272	40
1902	226	63	947	14
1903	251	56
1904	260	54
1905	242	65
1906	240	66
1907	245	72
1908	203	100	975	17
1909	207	102
1910	208	124	880	24
1911	203	150	838	26
1912	159	371	846	35
1913	154	474
1914	142	690
1915	125	1,083	906	53
1916	121	1,163	894	57
1917	120	1,247	918	57
1918	112	1,492	842	73
1919	112	1,433	824	73
1920	105	1,675	906	65
1921	93	1,954	861	73
1922	89	2,043	941	62
1923	90	2,168	792	85
1924	84	2,398	754	97
1925	86	2,295	803	84
1926	84	2,391	823	79
1927	81	2,502	763	90
1928	75	2,630	780	85
1929	73	2,664	858	69
1930	64	2,989	703	96
1931	62	3,006	778	75
1932	61	3,135	735	84
1933	64	2,926	829	65
1934	62	3,240	612	116
1935	61	3,271	519	153
1936	59	3,392	456	196
1937	59	3,328	485	182
1938	56	3,690	464	211
1939	59	3,531	402	279
1940	57	3,698	383	301
1941	58	3,785	377	324
1942	63	3,860	357	386
1943	59	4,217	334	443
1944	60	3,981	328	433
1945	61	3,954	309	488
1946	62	5,009	288	658
1947	63	5,908	267	819
1948	56	6,068	257	856
1949	54	6,226	257	869
1950	49	6,780	263	846
1951	49	6,946	250	930
1952	46	7,400	237	1,105
1953	48	7,320	250	1,053
1954	50	7,433	246	1,095
1955	52	7,154	271	1,001
1956	50	7,698	307	835
1957	50	7,875	352	667
1958	46	8,472	382	581
1959	49	8,339	411	529
1960	54	7,674	419	535
1961	58	7,180	463	447
1962	62	6,363	497	377
1963	69	5,695	507	369
1964	72	5,158	556	317
1965	84	4,394	599	259
1966	85	3,973	649	220
1967	89	3,534	765	165
1968	91	3,264	826	151
1969	96	3,158	737	189
1970	110	2,997	811	170
1971	125	2,542	920	141
1972	131	2,063
1973	141	1,798
1974	145	1,692
1975	159	1,531
1976	161	1,478
1977	176	1,356
1978	176	1,322
1979	188	1,271
1980	198	1,235
1981	197	1,248
1982	215	1,131
1983	212	1,095
1984	219	1,027
1985	219	1,094
1986	237	979
1987	249	927
1988	267	879
1989	287	854
1990	285	908
1991	330	757
1992	340	703
1993	365	641
1994	365	648
1995	404	567
1996	412	554
1997	447	502
1998	466	482
1999	496	441
2000	536	406
2001	408	612
2002	495	466
2003	551	405
2004	602	351
Totals:		274,010		20,268

During the last 125 years, parents have used Dale as a boy's name about 93% of the time and less frequently (about 6% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Dale appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 124 times during the last 125 years.

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