Proclaimed on 20 June 1872, it is officially thought to be named after Dalrymple, East Ayrshire, Scotland.

[1] The townships of Stansbury and Wool Bay, as well as the north eastern part of the modern bounded locality of Yorketown, are within the hundred boundaries.

Dalrymple substation, midway between Stansbury and Wool Bay at Hayward Corner, is named for the hundred.

[2][3] Officially it is thought to be named after Dalrymple, East Ayrshire, Scotland,[1] but it may alternatively have been named after the father of James Fergusson, the state governor of the day, Charles Dalrymple Fergusson.

The District Council of Dalrymple was established in 1877, bringing local government to the entire hundred.