Dawaun
Dawaun was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 224 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dawaun by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dawaun?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,560, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1992, the peak
Dawaun peaked in 1992, when 12 boys were given it, #4,620 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #12,560 | 2.9 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,038 | 3.1 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,939 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,710 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,908 | 2.5 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,453 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,464 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,852 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,656 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,745 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 8 | #7,592 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,046 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,721 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,750 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,620 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,163 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,962 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,970 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,620 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,665 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,564 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,364 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,865 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,199 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,267 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,523 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,044 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,578 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,490 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,010 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,048 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,795 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,275 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dawaun a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dawaun has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dawaun: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dawaun, and how old are they?
An estimated 215 Americans named Dawaun and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 25 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 186 people named Dawaun (6 women and girls, 180 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 213 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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, Dawaun is the fifth most given (2.0% 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 Dawaun
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 Dawaun and names like it
- Compare Dawaun and DwainBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDawaun peaked in 1992.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Dawaun.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dawaun alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.