Dale
Dale is a boy name of English origin, meaning From the valley.
What Dale means
From the valley.
Dale is short — 4 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Dale comes from
English names come from a long layering of Anglo-Saxon, Norman French, and biblical sources. Many began as surnames, place names, or occupations before they were ever used as first names.
Dale is recorded as English in origin. Browse other English names.
How popular is Dale?
You will not find Dale in the top 100 boy names at the moment. Plenty of well-known names sit outside the charts; popularity measures how often a name is registered, not how good or how real it is.
The character of Dale
Dale spans the natural world and Earth, which is why it can read differently depending on which association you notice first. Both threads are worth following.
Names like Dale
These share Dale's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Bradley — Broad meadow.
- Camden — Winding valley.
- Canyon — A deep gorge in the earth.
- Heath — The open moorland.
- Holden — From the deep valley.
- Landon — From the long hill.
- Ridge — From the mountain crest.
- Stanley — Dweller by the stony meadow.
- Bryn — Hill; a high mound.
- Glen — From the valley.
- Logan — From the little hollow.
- Avani — The earth.