Dawnette — girls' name
656 babies named Dawnette in U.S. Social Security records since 1951, with the highest year being 1971. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
40% of everyone ever named Dawnette was born in this single decade.
54 babies were named Dawnette in 1971 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Dawnette
The Social Security Administration has registered 656 babies named Dawnette between 1951 and 1991, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dawnette currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1991. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 54 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Dawnette performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 264 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Dawnette shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 65 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Michigan and Utah. In total, SSA state-level files list Dawnette in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Dawnette 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 656 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.
Dawnette at a glance
Last recorded 1991Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Dawnette popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1991–1951
- Peak year (1971)
- 54
- Annual births at peak — across 41 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1991.
656 total births across 41 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1971 with 54 births in a single year.
Dawnette by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 264 births that decade — 40% of Dawnette's all-time total
Dawnette decade highlights
- Peak decade 264 births
- Runner-up 238 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Dawnette's strongest decade
264 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 40% of all-time use.
Dawnette by state
Where Dawnette concentrates geographically — total births since 1951
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 65 | 9.9% |
| #2 | Michigan | | 5 | 0.8% |
| #3 | Utah | | 5 | 0.8% |
65 of 656 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 9.9% of nationwide
- Michigan 0.8% of nationwide
- Utah 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 9.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1951–1991 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.