This page shows the Dale (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1974 to 2020. Each row below is one year in which Dale was recorded as a first name for boys in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Dale's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for boys that year.

The record for Dale for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Dale appears in 47 of them, from 1974 to 2020, with 1,868 babies in total. Its largest single year was 1994, when the table records 203 babies given the name, at rank 44 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 1974 to 2020; years in which the table records no row for Dale for boys are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1974 to 2020. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among boys' first names
20203711
20195516
20183704
20174602
20165532
20159359
20143680
20138399
20125500
201111325
201010344
200920212
200818228
200716241
20069306
200511267
200415205
200311237
200218184
200113209
200016175
199926150
199837127
199751108
19969075
199514155
199420344
199315651
199214359
19919381
19909178
19897881
19885992
19875493
198645104
198542101
198440102
198337101
198232107
19814498
198039102
197936102
197829109
197717140
197629108
197527114
197416144

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