Dawnn
Dawnn was last recorded in 1994, when 5 babies were given it; 297 Americans have been recorded with it between 1954 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dawnn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dawnn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dawnn is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dawnn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,969, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1970, the peak
Dawnn peaked in 1970, when 17 girls were given it, #3,619 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | #13,969 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,150 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,766 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,114 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,975 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,610 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,885 | 9.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,794 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,571 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,078 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 8 | #6,209 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,749 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,605 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,619 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,130 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,481 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,887 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,250 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,290 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,697 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,428 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,824 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,312 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,539 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,869 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,245 | 4.5 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,231 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,833 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,269 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dawnn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dawnn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dawnn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dawnn, and how old are they?
An estimated 269 Americans named Dawnn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 38 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 378 people named Dawnn (377 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 277 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Dawnn?
Dawnn is a less common spelling of Dawn: SSA has recorded 297 Dawnn and 290,680 Dawn since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 290,977 babies since 1880, Dawnn is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 85 babies recorded by SSA was a Dawnn (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 Dawnn
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 Dawnn and names like it
- Compare Dawnn and DawnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDawnn peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dawnn since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Dawnn.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Dawnn alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.