Dawn — #1847 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Dawn

The Social Security Administration has registered 289,552 babies named Dawn between 1888 and 2024, spanning 137 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dawn currently holds the #1847 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 15,681 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dawn performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 114,292 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Dawn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 30,048 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Michigan and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Dawn in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dawn in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 289,552 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.