Dawan
Dawan was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 852 Americans have been recorded with it between 1956 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dawan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dawan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dawan is “a male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dawan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,245, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
40 babies in 1979, the peak
Dawan peaked in 1979, when 40 babies were given it (35 boys, #1,640 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #11,245 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,636 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,179 | 3.4 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,011 | 4.4 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,035 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,981 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,973 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,173 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,102 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 8 | #8,978 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 6 | #11,313 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,844 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 14 | #5,982 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,123 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,673 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,148 | 10.6 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,458 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,812 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,523 | 12.4 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,622 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,089 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,695 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,915 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,567 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 22 | #3,116 | 11.6 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,780 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,857 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,681 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 25 | #2,693 | 12.4 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,875 | 10.7 |
| 1989 | 18 | #3,224 | 9.0 |
| 1988 | 17 | #3,096 | 8.9 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,094 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,442 | 11.9 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,523 | 10.8 |
| 1984 | 21 | #2,381 | 11.6 |
| 1983 | 24 | #2,153 | 13.4 |
| 1982 | 29 | #1,903 | 16.0 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,697 | 9.5 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,747 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 35 | #1,640 | 20.3 |
| 1978 | 30 | #1,763 | 18.3 |
| 1977 | 29 | #1,792 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 24 | #2,009 | 15.3 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,661 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,372 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 18 | #2,248 | 11.5 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,854 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,421 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,585 | 4.3 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,617 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dawan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 852 Americans recorded as Dawan, 4% are girls and 96% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dawan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dawan, and how old are they?
An estimated 808 Americans named Dawan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 25 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 661 people named Dawan (77 women and girls, 584 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 804 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 11,412 babies since 1880, Dawan is the third most given (7.5% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dawan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dawan and names like it
- Compare Dawan and DwainBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDawan peaked in 1979.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dawan since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Dawan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Dawan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dawan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.