Dawon — boys' name
552 babies named Dawon in U.S. Social Security records since 1971, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
28% of everyone ever named Dawon was born in this single decade.
24 babies were named Dawon in 1990 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Dawon
The Social Security Administration has registered 552 babies named Dawon between 1971 and 2019, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dawon currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 24 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Dawon performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 156 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Dawon shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Dawon in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Dawon 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 552 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.
Dawon at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Dawon popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1971
- Peak year (1990)
- 24
- Annual births at peak — across 49 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
552 total births across 49 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1990 with 24 births in a single year.
Dawon by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 156 births that decade — 28% of Dawon's all-time total
Dawon decade highlights
- Peak decade 156 births
- Runner-up 150 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Dawon's strongest decade
156 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 28% of all-time use.
Dawon by state
Where Dawon concentrates geographically — total births since 1971
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Illinois | | 5 | 0.9% |
5 of 552 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Illinois 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Illinois accounts for 0.9% 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, 1971–2019 (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.