Dawsen — #5779 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Dawsen

The Social Security Administration has registered 505 babies named Dawsen between 1998 and 2024, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dawsen currently holds the #5779 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 38 babies received it in a single year. Dawsen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 31 additional births since 2002.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dawsen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 184 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Dawsen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah. In total, SSA state-level files list Dawsen in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dawsen 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 505 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.