Dally
surname · Latin script
Meaning: perhaps from Ailly (France) or Dally Farm; first attested Richard Daly 1275
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dæli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dally is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 70K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 133K
- DEGermany≈1 in 189K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 266 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
perhaps from Ailly (France) or Dally Farm; first attested Richard Daly 1275
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dally counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | 733 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,225 | 1 in 272K | 1.6K | Dally | 266 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Dally | 109 |
| FR France | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 156K | 51 | — | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 189K | — | Dally | 60 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 70K | 1 | Dally | 104 |
| JM Jamaica | #825 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Dally | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Dally | 30 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dally is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Eugène Dallyb. 1833FRFrench physician, physiologist (1833-1887)
- William Dallyb. 1908USAmerican rower (1908-1996)
- Hans Dallyb. 1916DEGerman officer and Knight's Cross recipient (1916-1997)
- June Dally-Watkinsb. 1927AUAustralian model (1927-2020)
- Ann Dallyb. 1929GBBritish writer and psychiatrist (1929-2007)
- Rainer Dallyb. 1942DEGerman judge
- Craig Dallyb. 1956USAmerican politician
- Ortwin Dallyb. 1969DEGerman classical archaeologist (1969-)
- Rashawn Dallyb. 1997USJamaican-American soccer player
- Lynn DallyUSAmerican choreographer and dancer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,379 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,069 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,371 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 733 | #698 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 64 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 63 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 51 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 37 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 30 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dally mean, and where does it come from?
- perhaps from Ailly (France) or Dally Farm; first attested Richard Daly 1275 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Dally?
- A machine transcription gives /dæli/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dally have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Dally in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Dally?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,225 people named Dally in 2010, about 1 in 272 thousand residents.
- How common is Dally compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Dally is the 825th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dallyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dally” — the 825th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.