Dawna — girls' name

What the Data Says About Dawna

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,017 babies named Dawna between 1919 and 2023, spanning 105 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dawna currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1966, when 264 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dawna performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 2,157 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Dawna shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 858 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Dawna in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dawna 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 6,017 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.