Dallas Family History
Dallas Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Dallas, a place near Forres,
probably named from British dol ‘meadow’ (Gaelic dail) +
gwas ‘dwelling’ (Gaelic fas). The surname is also
established in County Derry in Ireland.English:
habitational name from a place named from Old English dæl or
Old Norse dalr ‘valley’ + hus ‘house’, for example
Dalehouse in North Yorkshire, or a topographic name with the same
meaning.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Dallas Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dallas families
 71 - 140  24 - 70 |
 1 - 23  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dallas families
|
127 - 251 43 - 126 |
1 - 42 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Dallas Family Origin
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Dallas Family Occupations
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