Dawana
Dawana was last recorded in 1994, when 5 babies were given it; 533 Americans have been recorded with it between 1951 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dawana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dawana?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,968, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 1976, the peak
Dawana peaked in 1976, when 26 girls were given it, #2,881 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | #13,968 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,787 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,763 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,861 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,656 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,859 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,250 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,142 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,512 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,094 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 12 | #5,616 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,532 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,432 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,888 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,777 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,891 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,657 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,266 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,881 | 17.7 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,804 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,933 | 16.4 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,665 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,920 | 15.1 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,358 | 7.8 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,132 | 12.0 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,004 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 19 | #2,982 | 11.6 |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,890 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,960 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,959 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,133 | 9.0 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,662 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,625 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,078 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,868 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,783 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,520 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,965 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,018 | 2.6 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,581 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,591 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dawana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dawana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dawana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dawana, and how old are they?
An estimated 489 Americans named Dawana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 45 and 60. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 473 people named Dawana (468 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 501 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,416 babies since 1880, Dawana is the fourth most given (4.7% 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 Dawana
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 Dawana and names like it
- Compare Dawana and DawnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDawana peaked in 1976.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dawana since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Dawana.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Dawana alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.