Girls' name · since 1986
Dawnee
Dawnee has 12 recorded births since 1986 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1986 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #51,640 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 12
- born since 1986
- 1980s
- peak decade
12 girls have been named Dawnee since 1986, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Dawnee has 12 recorded births among girls since 1986, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1986 to 1988.
- #51,640 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 12 born since 1986
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Dawnee ranks #51,640 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 12 born since 1986, peaking in the 1980s.
- #51,640 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 12
- born since 1986
- 1980s
- peak decade
Dawnee's 12 recorded births place it above 27.4% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Dawnee's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Dawnee splits its recorded history at 1988: 42% of all births land in the more recent half, 58% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1988 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1986 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Dawnee popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1986–1988
- Peak year (1986)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 3 years of records
Dawnee by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (12 births, 100% of the file).
1980s was Dawnee's strongest decade.
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Dawnee births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s
1980s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 12 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Dawnee: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1986)
Similar record span (~2 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1986–1988 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Dawnee draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.