Girls' name · since 1962
Dawanda
249 babies named Dawanda in U.S. Social Security records since 1962, with the highest year being 1972. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #17,624 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 249
- born since 1962
- 1970s
- peak decade
Dawanda is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 249 have been recorded since 1962.
Dawanda has 249 recorded births among girls since 1962, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1962 to 1997.
- #17,624 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 249 born since 1962
- 1970s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Dawanda ranks #17,624 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 249 born since 1962, peaking in the 1970s.
- #17,624 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 249
- born since 1962
- 1970s
- peak decade
Dawanda's 249 recorded births place it above 75.6% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Dawanda's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Dawanda's full recorded timeline at 1976, 51% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 49% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1962, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1972 peak of 16 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Dawanda popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1962–1997
- Peak year (1972)
- 16
- Annual births at peak, across 36 years of records
Dawanda by decade
1970s is the heaviest window (115 births, 46% of the file).
1970s was Dawanda's strongest decade.
115 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 46% of all-time use.
Dawanda births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s
1960s
52 births
- 1970s
1970s
115 births
- 1980s
1980s
61 births
- 1990s 21
1990s
21 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 115 births (46% of all-time use).
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- Dawanda's decade-level peak was the 1970s (115 total births); usage has since declined to 21 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Dawanda: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1972)
Similar record span (~35 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1962–1997 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Dawanda draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.