Dwain
Dwain was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 7,581 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,420 Americans named Dwain and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (58% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 52 and 71.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dwain by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dwain mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dwain is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dwain?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,295, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
258 babies in 1959, the peak
Dwain peaked in 1959, when 258 boys were given it, #488 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #11,295 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,088 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,348 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,842 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,139 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,751 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,725 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,731 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,782 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,802 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (110)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #11,108 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,538 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,027 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,740 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,906 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,334 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,571 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,093 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,705 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,636 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,551 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,580 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,848 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,401 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,738 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,484 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,872 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,588 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,496 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,073 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,134 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 31 | #2,301 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 38 | #1,976 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 36 | #1,997 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 35 | #1,884 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 36 | #1,802 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 31 | #1,928 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 36 | #1,705 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 37 | #1,609 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 45 | #1,404 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 51 | #1,309 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 45 | #1,417 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,181 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,196 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 57 | #1,179 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,162 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 50 | #1,228 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 62 | #1,057 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 81 | #900 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 95 | #811 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 87 | #860 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 100 | #805 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 117 | #764 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 120 | #715 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 104 | #733 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 104 | #726 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 117 | #684 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 123 | #669 | 0.07 |
| 1964 | 140 | #655 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 176 | #591 | 0.09 |
| 1962 | 151 | #629 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 190 | #571 | 0.09 |
| 1960 | 231 | #523 | 0.11 |
| 1959 | 258 | #488 | 0.12 |
| 1958 | 179 | #577 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 177 | #578 | 0.08 |
| 1956 | 195 | #537 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 155 | #589 | 0.08 |
| 1954 | 178 | #545 | 0.09 |
| 1953 | 166 | #547 | 0.08 |
| 1952 | 138 | #601 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 138 | #591 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 114 | #651 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 132 | #592 | 0.07 |
| 1948 | 128 | #592 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 133 | #590 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 123 | #579 | 0.08 |
| 1945 | 74 | #708 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 83 | #681 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 82 | #709 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 106 | #613 | 0.08 |
| 1941 | 93 | #631 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 110 | #565 | 0.09 |
| 1939 | 101 | #570 | 0.09 |
| 1938 | 108 | #560 | 0.10 |
| 1937 | 105 | #566 | 0.10 |
| 1936 | 107 | #554 | 0.10 |
| 1935 | 108 | #554 | 0.10 |
| 1934 | 98 | #595 | 0.09 |
| 1933 | 100 | #578 | 0.10 |
| 1932 | 89 | #635 | 0.09 |
| 1931 | 85 | #643 | 0.08 |
| 1930 | 76 | #721 | 0.07 |
| 1929 | 76 | #714 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 75 | #741 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 65 | #832 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 63 | #834 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 77 | #747 | 0.07 |
| 1924 | 53 | #968 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 53 | #941 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 50 | #1,002 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 41 | #1,107 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 44 | #1,053 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 32 | #1,252 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 26 | #1,413 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,374 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,523 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,722 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,896 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 9 | #1,983 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dwain a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dwain has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 110 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dwain: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dwain, and how old are they?
4,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 58% of the 7,581 Americans ever recorded as Dwain. The median Dwain alive today is 63 years old; half are between 52 and 71.
The 2020 Census counted 4,473 people named Dwain (20 women and girls, 4,453 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,001 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 327 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,090 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,220 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 490 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 206 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 92 |
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 Dwain born?
The states with the most babies named Dwain are Texas, California and Ohio, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 680 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 398 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 374 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 310 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 187 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 173 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 150 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Iowa | 125 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 124 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 113 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Dwain is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dwain is most over-represented in Nebraska: since 1913 it was given 1.6 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 Dwain 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 10,860 babies since 1880, Dwain is the most given (70% 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 Dwain
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 Dwain and names like it
- Compare Dwain and DwanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDwain peaked in 1959.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dwain since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Dwain.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dwain alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.