Dwaine
Dwaine was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 4,362 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,560 Americans named Dwaine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (59% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 49 and 71.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dwaine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dwaine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,227, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
112 babies in 1959, the peak
Dwaine peaked in 1959, when 112 boys were given it, #721 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #9,227 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,645 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,559 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,105 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,957 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,806 | 2.7 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,838 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,181 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,653 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,782 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | #6,696 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,125 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,856 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,156 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,057 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,932 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,395 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,330 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,192 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,071 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,433 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,032 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 10 | #5,944 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,924 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,127 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,874 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,365 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,870 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,365 | 9.5 |
| 1991 | 21 | #3,022 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 30 | #2,322 | 14.6 |
| 1989 | 24 | #2,629 | 12.0 |
| 1988 | 27 | #2,262 | 14.1 |
| 1987 | 28 | #2,129 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,172 | 8.1 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,136 | 14.1 |
| 1984 | 24 | #2,183 | 13.3 |
| 1983 | 24 | #2,157 | 13.4 |
| 1982 | 25 | #2,129 | 13.8 |
| 1981 | 43 | #1,461 | 24.0 |
| 1980 | 30 | #1,872 | 16.8 |
| 1979 | 30 | #1,843 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 42 | #1,443 | 25.6 |
| 1977 | 44 | #1,377 | 26.8 |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,290 | 30.0 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,214 | 31.4 |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,298 | 27.3 |
| 1973 | 62 | #1,026 | 39.8 |
| 1972 | 39 | #1,351 | 24.1 |
| 1971 | 59 | #1,060 | 33.4 |
| 1970 | 73 | #935 | 39.3 |
| 1969 | 73 | #894 | 40.8 |
| 1968 | 62 | #922 | 35.7 |
| 1967 | 56 | #972 | 32.1 |
| 1966 | 59 | #944 | 33.1 |
| 1965 | 69 | #883 | 37.1 |
| 1964 | 71 | #903 | 35.6 |
| 1963 | 83 | #832 | 40.9 |
| 1962 | 92 | #793 | 44.5 |
| 1961 | 84 | #839 | 39.5 |
| 1960 | 111 | #730 | 52.1 |
| 1959 | 112 | #721 | 52.5 |
| 1958 | 92 | #780 | 43.3 |
| 1957 | 100 | #749 | 46.4 |
| 1956 | 103 | #721 | 48.7 |
| 1955 | 85 | #794 | 41.3 |
| 1954 | 103 | #713 | 50.5 |
| 1953 | 83 | #779 | 42.1 |
| 1952 | 89 | #747 | 45.8 |
| 1951 | 97 | #702 | 51.5 |
| 1950 | 66 | #839 | 36.9 |
| 1949 | 73 | #803 | 41.2 |
| 1948 | 64 | #854 | 36.5 |
| 1947 | 58 | #917 | 31.7 |
| 1946 | 62 | #841 | 38.2 |
| 1945 | 44 | #968 | 32.7 |
| 1944 | 55 | #854 | 40.4 |
| 1943 | 55 | #903 | 38.5 |
| 1942 | 41 | #1,064 | 29.7 |
| 1941 | 47 | #927 | 38.3 |
| 1940 | 50 | #898 | 43.1 |
| 1939 | 53 | #837 | 47.9 |
| 1938 | 68 | #744 | 61.3 |
| 1937 | 64 | #766 | 60.0 |
| 1936 | 60 | #791 | 57.8 |
| 1935 | 69 | #739 | 66.3 |
| 1934 | 58 | #826 | 56.2 |
| 1933 | 68 | #740 | 68.6 |
| 1932 | 74 | #722 | 70.9 |
| 1931 | 42 | #1,039 | 40.4 |
| 1930 | 62 | #825 | 56.5 |
| 1929 | 51 | #944 | 47.4 |
| 1928 | 62 | #835 | 56.0 |
| 1927 | 43 | #1,087 | 38.2 |
| 1926 | 52 | #946 | 46.8 |
| 1925 | 33 | #1,261 | 29.6 |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,272 | 29.1 |
| 1923 | 33 | #1,262 | 30.1 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,554 | 22.1 |
| 1921 | 28 | #1,422 | 25.4 |
| 1920 | 25 | #1,515 | 23.5 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,710 | 20.4 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,180 | 7.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,142 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,084 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dwaine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dwaine has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 105 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dwaine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dwaine, and how old are they?
2,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 59% of the 4,362 Americans ever recorded as Dwaine. The median Dwaine alive today is 62 years old; half are between 49 and 71.
The 2020 Census counted 2,636 people named Dwaine (18 women and girls, 2,618 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,883 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 187 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,090 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 733 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 338 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 144 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 61 |
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 Dwaine born?
The states with the most babies named Dwaine are Ohio, California and Texas, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 190 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 178 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 156 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Nebraska | 132 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Iowa | 122 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 111 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 102 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 60 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 31 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 29 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Dwaine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dwaine is most over-represented in Nebraska: since 1916 it was given 3.3 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 Dwaine with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Dwaine?
Dwaine is a less common spelling of Dwayne: SSA has recorded 4,362 Dwaine and 77,200 Dwayne since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 86,422 babies since 1880, Dwaine is the second most given (5.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 109 babies recorded by SSA was a Dwaine (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 Dwaine
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 Dwaine and names like it
- Compare Dwaine and DwayneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDwaine peaked in 1959.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dwaine since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Dwaine.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dwaine alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.