Dewane
Dewane was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 508 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dewane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dewane?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,538, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1932, the peak
Dewane peaked in 1932, when 18 boys were given it, #1,733 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #12,538 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,208 | 3.2 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,240 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,566 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,829 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,916 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,299 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,664 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,092 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,540 | 6.4 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 10 | #3,494 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,184 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,641 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,090 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,744 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,947 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,681 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,783 | 5.8 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,825 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,831 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 12 | #2,394 | 6.5 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,359 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,717 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,413 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,442 | 5.6 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,424 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,635 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,875 | 4.2 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,817 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,791 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,579 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,166 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,136 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,410 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,816 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,010 | 8.2 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,052 | 8.0 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,435 | 6.7 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,192 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,305 | 4.2 |
| 1942 | 10 | #2,416 | 7.2 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,705 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,938 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,659 | 7.2 |
| 1938 | 7 | #2,935 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 7 | #2,979 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,332 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,760 | 7.7 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,300 | 10.7 |
| 1933 | 14 | #1,926 | 14.1 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,733 | 17.2 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,024 | 13.5 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,643 | 9.1 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,654 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,144 | 7.2 |
| 1927 | 6 | #3,876 | 5.3 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,206 | 7.2 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,234 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 6 | #3,959 | 5.5 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,039 | 8.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dewane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dewane has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dewane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dewane, and how old are they?
An estimated 266 Americans named Dewane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (52% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 51 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 321 people named Dewane (6 women and girls, 315 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 311 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 27,682 babies since 1880, Dewane is the third most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 55 babies recorded by SSA was a Dewane (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Dewane
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 Dewane and names like it
- Compare Dewane and DewayneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sDewane peaked in 1932.
- The top names of 1932The year the most babies were named Dewane.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Dewane alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.