Last Name DALLAS

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Meaning	Local: from Dallas in Elginshire. The name signifies a watered meadow; dail, a meadow, and uis, water. Sir William de Doleys was living in 1286 ; in 1367 John de Dolais was Thane ot Cromdale. From 'Deallus,' knowing, skillful.

Origin	Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Hungarian

Rank	3,698 (2000 US census)	3,285 (1990 US census)

Count	8,811 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

65.07%, or 5733 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
27.76%, or 2446 total occurrences, as black,
0.69%, or 61 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
2.19%, or 193 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.94%, or 171 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
2.35%, or 207 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

English surnames

English surnames can be divided into five classes: Baptisimal or Personal (first) names, local, official, and occupative surnames. Nicknames represent the last class. Practically there are only four classes, for it is often hard ti distinguish between occupation and offic...

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...