Dewayne
Dewayne was given to 55 boys in 2025, #2,457 among boys’ names; 26,598 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 20,400 Americans named Dewayne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 38 and 63.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dewayne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dewayne mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dewayne is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dewayne?
#2,457 among boys’ names, 2025
Dewayne fell from #1,581 in 2015 to #2,457 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 53.2 to 32.2 per million.
655 babies in 1963, the peak
Dewayne peaked in 1963, when 655 babies were given it (650 boys, #307 among boys’ names). The 55 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | #2,457 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,062 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 48 | #2,704 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 53 | #2,570 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 60 | #2,306 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,146 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,064 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,103 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 91 | #1,719 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 85 | #1,793 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 102 | #1,581 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 108 | #1,494 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 115 | #1,435 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 115 | #1,441 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 128 | #1,327 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 145 | #1,220 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 151 | #1,195 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 157 | #1,157 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 164 | #1,116 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 146 | #1,156 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 151 | #1,095 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 154 | #1,048 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 147 | #1,054 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 149 | #1,027 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 153 | #998 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 184 | #861 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 169 | #891 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 168 | #863 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 173 | #833 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 157 | #872 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 198 | #762 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 177 | #797 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 184 | #775 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 247 | #661 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 265 | #625 | 0.13 |
| 1990 | 245 | #645 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 286 | #577 | 0.14 |
| 1988 | 267 | #567 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 304 | #515 | 0.16 |
| 1986 | 300 | #507 | 0.16 |
| 1985 | 313 | #490 | 0.17 |
| 1984 | 335 | #461 | 0.19 |
| 1983 | 317 | #469 | 0.18 |
| 1982 | 398 | #420 | 0.22 |
| 1981 | 378 | #431 | 0.21 |
| 1980 | 441 | #391 | 0.25 |
| 1979 | 431 | #387 | 0.25 |
| 1978 | 462 | #360 | 0.28 |
| 1977 | 526 | #340 | 0.32 |
| 1976 | 471 | #353 | 0.30 |
| 1975 | 476 | #353 | 0.30 |
| 1974 | 426 | #369 | 0.27 |
| 1973 | 520 | #329 | 0.33 |
| 1972 | 530 | #334 | 0.33 |
| 1971 | 543 | #338 | 0.31 |
| 1970 | 554 | #343 | 0.30 |
| 1969 | 537 | #337 | 0.30 |
| 1968 | 524 | #334 | 0.30 |
| 1967 | 511 | #331 | 0.29 |
| 1966 | 600 | #304 | 0.34 |
| 1965 | 586 | #315 | 0.32 |
| 1964 | 611 | #312 | 0.31 |
| 1963 | 650 | #307 | 0.32 |
| 1962 | 651 | #303 | 0.31 |
| 1961 | 626 | #313 | 0.29 |
| 1960 | 580 | #324 | 0.27 |
| 1959 | 500 | #348 | 0.23 |
| 1958 | 461 | #357 | 0.22 |
| 1957 | 428 | #372 | 0.20 |
| 1956 | 358 | #399 | 0.17 |
| 1955 | 319 | #410 | 0.15 |
| 1954 | 292 | #418 | 0.14 |
| 1953 | 296 | #402 | 0.15 |
| 1952 | 290 | #404 | 0.15 |
| 1951 | 238 | #437 | 0.13 |
| 1950 | 214 | #450 | 0.12 |
| 1949 | 203 | #462 | 0.11 |
| 1948 | 213 | #456 | 0.12 |
| 1947 | 226 | #445 | 0.12 |
| 1946 | 188 | #465 | 0.12 |
| 1945 | 158 | #474 | 0.12 |
| 1944 | 196 | #436 | 0.14 |
| 1943 | 163 | #483 | 0.11 |
| 1942 | 159 | #487 | 0.12 |
| 1941 | 185 | #430 | 0.15 |
| 1940 | 156 | #463 | 0.13 |
| 1939 | 139 | #488 | 0.13 |
| 1938 | 141 | #488 | 0.13 |
| 1937 | 146 | #462 | 0.14 |
| 1936 | 165 | #438 | 0.16 |
| 1935 | 188 | #397 | 0.18 |
| 1934 | 127 | #518 | 0.12 |
| 1933 | 121 | #513 | 0.12 |
| 1932 | 114 | #551 | 0.11 |
| 1931 | 131 | #501 | 0.13 |
| 1930 | 76 | #719 | 0.07 |
| 1929 | 87 | #661 | 0.08 |
| 1928 | 77 | #733 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 67 | #812 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 69 | #787 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 74 | #768 | 0.07 |
| 1924 | 70 | #810 | 0.06 |
| 1923 | 69 | #806 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 61 | #885 | 0.06 |
| 1921 | 53 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1920 | 48 | #993 | 0.05 |
| 1919 | 35 | #1,194 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 45 | #999 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 28 | #1,303 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,385 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 26 | #1,314 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,801 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,930 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,923 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dewayne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dewayne has been given almost only to boys: 107 girls in 114 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dewayne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dewayne, and how old are they?
20,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 26,598 Americans ever recorded as Dewayne. The median Dewayne alive today is 52 years old; half are between 38 and 63.
The 2020 Census counted 17,092 people named Dewayne (62 women and girls, 17,030 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 21,506 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 555 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5,150 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7,210 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,170 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,410 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 952 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Dewayne born?
The states with the most babies named Dewayne are Texas, California and Tennessee, with 21% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,894 | #2,348 | 1.0× |
| California | 1,425 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 1,416 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Indiana | 1,354 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Alabama | 1,216 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Illinois | 1,061 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 1,043 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 1,009 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Oklahoma | 891 | #724 | 2.4× |
| Missouri | 866 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Dewayne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dewayne is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1912 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dewayne with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 27,682 babies since 1880, Dewayne is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 55 of their 55 babies (100%), again the 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 Dewayne
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 Dewayne and names like it
- Compare Dewayne and DewaineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDewayne peaked in 1963.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dewayne since 1910.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Dewayne.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Dewayne alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.