Dawayne
Dawayne was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 1,690 Americans have been recorded with it between 1929 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,520 Americans named Dawayne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 25 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dawayne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dawayne?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,127, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 1977, the peak
Dawayne peaked in 1977, when 45 boys were given it, #1,357 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #10,127 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,973 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,041 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,409 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,721 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,495 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,736 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,923 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,291 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,611 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 13 | #6,373 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,322 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 22 | #4,420 | 11.6 |
| 2011 | 25 | #4,009 | 13.2 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,264 | 12.0 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,186 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 25 | #4,051 | 12.3 |
| 2007 | 31 | #3,454 | 14.9 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,616 | 13.6 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,866 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,890 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,644 | 12.1 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,211 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,737 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 20 | #3,941 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,016 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,696 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 22 | #3,269 | 11.7 |
| 1996 | 35 | #2,303 | 18.5 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,449 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 28 | #2,631 | 14.5 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,065 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 41 | #1,954 | 20.5 |
| 1991 | 34 | #2,145 | 16.8 |
| 1990 | 29 | #2,378 | 14.1 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,488 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 35 | #1,879 | 18.3 |
| 1987 | 25 | #2,283 | 13.4 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,443 | 11.9 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,524 | 10.8 |
| 1984 | 35 | #1,661 | 19.4 |
| 1983 | 33 | #1,714 | 18.4 |
| 1982 | 34 | #1,705 | 18.7 |
| 1981 | 38 | #1,580 | 21.2 |
| 1980 | 32 | #1,775 | 17.9 |
| 1979 | 34 | #1,684 | 19.7 |
| 1978 | 40 | #1,478 | 24.4 |
| 1977 | 45 | #1,357 | 27.4 |
| 1976 | 39 | #1,430 | 24.9 |
| 1975 | 30 | #1,667 | 19.2 |
| 1974 | 27 | #1,759 | 17.2 |
| 1973 | 32 | #1,520 | 20.5 |
| 1972 | 36 | #1,425 | 22.2 |
| 1971 | 40 | #1,334 | 22.6 |
| 1970 | 32 | #1,497 | 17.2 |
| 1969 | 29 | #1,503 | 16.2 |
| 1968 | 17 | #1,975 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 27 | #1,479 | 15.5 |
| 1966 | 26 | #1,515 | 14.6 |
| 1965 | 21 | #1,732 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 19 | #1,858 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 15 | #2,131 | 7.4 |
| 1962 | 16 | #2,055 | 7.7 |
| 1961 | 17 | #2,016 | 8.0 |
| 1960 | 17 | #1,987 | 8.0 |
| 1959 | 14 | #2,220 | 6.6 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,880 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,868 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,019 | 3.8 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,267 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 22 | #1,638 | 10.8 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,933 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,160 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,828 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,402 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,391 | 3.4 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,147 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,250 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,534 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,297 | 4.2 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,600 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,249 | 5.4 |
| 1936 | 7 | #2,940 | 6.7 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,089 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dawayne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dawayne has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 84 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dawayne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dawayne, and how old are they?
1,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 1,690 Americans ever recorded as Dawayne. The median Dawayne alive today is 40 years old; half are between 25 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 1,102 people named Dawayne (3 women and girls, 1,099 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,520 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 8 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 136 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 450 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 452 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 351 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 120 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 86,422 babies since 1880, Dawayne is the fourth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 109 babies recorded by SSA was a Dawayne (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Dawayne
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 Dawayne and names like it
- Compare Dawayne and DwayneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDawayne peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dawayne since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Dawayne.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dawayne alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.