Dawanna
Dawanna was last recorded in 2000, when 8 babies were given it; 435 Americans have been recorded with it between 1955 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dawanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dawanna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,981, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1983, the peak
Dawanna peaked in 1983, when 22 girls were given it, #3,584 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 8 | #10,981 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,981 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,285 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,846 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,621 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,639 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,224 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,340 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,202 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,582 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 19 | #4,327 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,919 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,426 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,548 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,584 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,276 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,579 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,778 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,305 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,804 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,477 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,403 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,805 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,455 | 12.9 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,513 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,855 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,821 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,554 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,810 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,242 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,593 | 4.2 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,402 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,414 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,427 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,602 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,643 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,705 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,294 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,019 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dawanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dawanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dawanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dawanna, and how old are they?
An estimated 409 Americans named Dawanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 39 and 54. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 387 people named Dawanna (386 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 416 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% 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 8,851 babies since 1880, Dawanna is the fifth most given (4.9% 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 Dawanna
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 Dawanna and names like it
- Compare Dawanna and DawnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDawanna peaked in 1983.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dawanna since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Dawanna.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dawanna alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.