Dwana
Dwana was last recorded in 2002, when 5 babies were given it; 988 Americans have been recorded with it between 1943 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dwana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dwana?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,166, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
82 babies in 1964, the peak
Dwana peaked in 1964, when 82 girls were given it, #1,220 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | #16,166 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,055 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,199 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,735 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,680 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,972 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,377 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,206 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,253 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,123 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 15 | #4,790 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,002 | 16.8 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,770 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,007 | 17.4 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,795 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,368 | 15.0 |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,956 | 17.6 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,201 | 15.7 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,749 | 19.1 |
| 1975 | 33 | #2,419 | 22.6 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,779 | 17.7 |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,521 | 19.9 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,472 | 19.1 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,496 | 18.0 |
| 1970 | 35 | #2,246 | 20.0 |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,366 | 17.8 |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,175 | 18.9 |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,092 | 19.4 |
| 1966 | 37 | #1,895 | 21.9 |
| 1965 | 39 | #1,833 | 22.1 |
| 1964 | 82 | #1,220 | 43.3 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,101 | 8.8 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,954 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,310 | 13.4 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,016 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,533 | 10.4 |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,341 | 11.9 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,506 | 10.3 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,555 | 10.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,857 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,785 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,619 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,222 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,128 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,890 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,819 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,900 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,574 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,165 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,751 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,315 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dwana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dwana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dwana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dwana, and how old are they?
An estimated 881 Americans named Dwana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 48 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 818 people named Dwana (813 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 913 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,799 babies since 1880, Dwana is the second most given (11% 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 Dwana
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 Dwana and names like it
- Compare Dwana and DawnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDwana peaked in 1964.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dwana since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Dwana.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Dwana alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.