Dawnna
Dawnna was last recorded in 1990, when 5 babies were given it; 140 Americans have been recorded with it between 1957 and 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dawnna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dawnna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,480, in 1990; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1971, the peak
Dawnna peaked in 1971, when 15 girls were given it, #3,982 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 5 | #13,480 | 2.6 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,356 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,650 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,023 | 5.2 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,376 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,635 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,549 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 15 | #3,982 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,267 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,131 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 6 | #6,409 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,358 | 6.1 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,929 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,732 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,429 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,770 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,851 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,142 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,537 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dawnna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dawnna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dawnna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dawnna, and how old are they?
An estimated 127 Americans named Dawnna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 53 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 212 people named Dawnna (212 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 130 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times 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 Dawnna?
Dawnna is a less common spelling of Dawna: SSA has recorded 140 Dawnna and 6,017 Dawna since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,384 babies since 1880, Dawnna is the eighth most given (1.2% of them).
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 Dawnna
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 Dawnna and names like it
- Compare Dawnna and DawnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDawnna peaked in 1971.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Dawnna.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Dawnna alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.