Meaning and history
From an English surname derived from a place name meaning “valley town” in Old English, the name Dalton is associated with John Dalton (1766–1844), the English chemist and physicist who theorized about the existence of atoms.
20062006: 1,939 births, rank #200
2007: 1,836 births, rank #212
2008: 1,736 births, rank #218
2009: 1,476 births, rank #239
2010: 1,332 births, rank #260
20112011: 1,267 births, rank #276
2012: 1,232 births, rank #284
2013: 1,106 births, rank #310
2014: 1,118 births, rank #312
2015: 1,050 births, rank #328
20162016: 1,050 births, rank #328
2017: 893 births, rank #371
2018: 799 births, rank #397
2019: 686 births, rank #444
2020: 638 births, rank #463
20212021: 566 births, rank #519
2022: 574 births, rank #516
2023: 582 births, rank #513
2024: 732 births, rank #433
20252025: 699 births, rank #448
Dalton moved from #433 to #448 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1998, with 4,565 births.