Dawon
Dawon was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 552 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dawon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dawon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,591, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1990, the peak
Dawon peaked in 1990, when 24 boys were given it, #2,709 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #12,591 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,982 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,495 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,704 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,711 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,708 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,377 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,830 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,337 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,356 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 13 | #5,937 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,676 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,860 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,469 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,519 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,798 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,189 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 10 | #5,916 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,622 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,568 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,518 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,585 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,773 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,478 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,675 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 24 | #2,709 | 11.7 |
| 1989 | 17 | #3,343 | 8.5 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,556 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 17 | #2,969 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,296 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,250 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,130 | 7.8 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,103 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,527 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,926 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,459 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,153 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,663 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,074 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,780 | 5.7 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,396 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,157 | 4.5 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,063 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dawon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dawon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dawon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dawon, and how old are they?
An estimated 529 Americans named Dawon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 23 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 492 people named Dawon (59 women and girls, 433 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 536 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,759 babies since 1880, Dawon is the third most given (15% 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 Dawon
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 Dawon and names like it
- Compare Dawon and DwanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDawon peaked in 1990.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dawon since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Dawon.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dawon alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.