Dabney — unisex name

What the Data Says About Dabney

The Social Security Administration has registered 391 babies named Dabney between 1947 and 2023, spanning 77 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dabney currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1973, when 15 babies received it in a single year. Dabney is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 232 additional births since 1897.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dabney performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 80 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Dabney shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dabney in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 391 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.