Dawsen
Dawsen was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,435 among boys’ names; 553 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dawsen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dawsen?
#5,435 among boys’ names, 2025
Dawsen fell from #5,104 in 2015 to #5,435 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 9.4 to 10.0 per million.
38 babies in 1999, the peak
Dawsen peaked in 1999, when 38 boys were given it, #2,357 among boys’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,435 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,716 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,713 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,065 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,790 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,295 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,363 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,366 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 24 | #4,247 | 13.0 |
| 2016 | 19 | #4,986 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,104 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,375 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,021 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,075 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,025 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,535 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,510 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,295 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,045 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,385 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,734 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,159 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,867 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,538 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 29 | #3,073 | 14.9 |
| 2000 | 27 | #3,161 | 13.7 |
| 1999 | 38 | #2,357 | 19.8 |
| 1998 | 21 | #3,512 | 11.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dawsen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 553 Americans recorded as Dawsen, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dawsen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dawsen, and how old are they?
An estimated 546 Americans named Dawsen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 450 people named Dawsen (58 women and girls, 392 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 444 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 54,752 babies since 1880, Dawsen is the second most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 2,585 babies (<1%), again the second most given.
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 Dawsen
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 Dawsen and names like it
- Compare Dawsen and DawsonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDawsen peaked in 1999.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dawsen since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Dawsen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dawsen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.