Dwane
Dwane was last recorded in 2017, when 7 babies were given it; 3,170 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,990 Americans named Dwane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (63% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 48 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dwane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dwane mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dwane is “a male given name, variant of Dwayne.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dwane?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,969, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
102 babies in 1963, the peak
Dwane peaked in 1963, when 102 boys were given it, #761 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 7 | #9,969 | 3.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,584 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,654 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,336 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,857 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,863 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,745 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,857 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,259 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,706 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 6 | #9,717 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,581 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,442 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,164 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,788 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,232 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,646 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,093 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,788 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,103 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,490 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,142 | 9.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,763 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,862 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,630 | 11.5 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,583 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,173 | 8.1 |
| 1985 | 16 | #2,983 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 24 | #2,184 | 13.3 |
| 1983 | 36 | #1,636 | 20.1 |
| 1982 | 28 | #1,942 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 21 | #2,363 | 11.7 |
| 1980 | 36 | #1,631 | 20.2 |
| 1979 | 38 | #1,540 | 22.1 |
| 1978 | 48 | #1,305 | 29.2 |
| 1977 | 49 | #1,273 | 29.8 |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,291 | 30.0 |
| 1975 | 38 | #1,437 | 24.3 |
| 1974 | 35 | #1,481 | 22.3 |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,279 | 26.9 |
| 1972 | 46 | #1,217 | 28.4 |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,275 | 24.3 |
| 1970 | 66 | #1,001 | 35.5 |
| 1969 | 68 | #928 | 38.0 |
| 1968 | 54 | #1,008 | 31.1 |
| 1967 | 51 | #1,024 | 29.2 |
| 1966 | 67 | #883 | 37.6 |
| 1965 | 68 | #893 | 36.6 |
| 1964 | 83 | #832 | 41.7 |
| 1963 | 102 | #761 | 50.2 |
| 1962 | 70 | #910 | 33.8 |
| 1961 | 78 | #866 | 36.7 |
| 1960 | 79 | #854 | 37.0 |
| 1959 | 71 | #907 | 33.3 |
| 1958 | 80 | #843 | 37.7 |
| 1957 | 64 | #946 | 29.7 |
| 1956 | 57 | #992 | 26.9 |
| 1955 | 54 | #1,025 | 26.2 |
| 1954 | 57 | #986 | 28.0 |
| 1953 | 49 | #1,038 | 24.8 |
| 1952 | 47 | #1,056 | 24.2 |
| 1951 | 44 | #1,085 | 23.4 |
| 1950 | 29 | #1,345 | 16.2 |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,209 | 19.7 |
| 1948 | 42 | #1,096 | 23.9 |
| 1947 | 42 | #1,122 | 23.0 |
| 1946 | 44 | #1,032 | 27.1 |
| 1945 | 34 | #1,130 | 25.3 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,373 | 17.6 |
| 1943 | 31 | #1,242 | 21.7 |
| 1942 | 34 | #1,196 | 24.6 |
| 1941 | 32 | #1,173 | 26.1 |
| 1940 | 37 | #1,073 | 31.9 |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,280 | 24.4 |
| 1938 | 36 | #1,081 | 32.5 |
| 1937 | 47 | #912 | 44.1 |
| 1936 | 33 | #1,147 | 31.8 |
| 1935 | 51 | #885 | 49.0 |
| 1934 | 40 | #1,027 | 38.7 |
| 1933 | 39 | #1,036 | 39.3 |
| 1932 | 33 | #1,181 | 31.6 |
| 1931 | 36 | #1,136 | 34.6 |
| 1930 | 38 | #1,137 | 34.6 |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,223 | 30.7 |
| 1928 | 32 | #1,278 | 28.9 |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,572 | 21.3 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,484 | 22.5 |
| 1925 | 18 | #1,887 | 16.1 |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,544 | 22.1 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,515 | 22.8 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,166 | 13.8 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,723 | 19.1 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,019 | 8.5 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,550 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,309 | 7.6 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,085 | 5.6 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,510 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dwane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dwane has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 97 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dwane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dwane, and how old are they?
1,990 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 63% of the 3,170 Americans ever recorded as Dwane. The median Dwane alive today is 60 years old; half are between 48 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 2,127 people named Dwane (27 women and girls, 2,100 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,222 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 118 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 774 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 698 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 267 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 118 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 17 |
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 Dwane born?
The states with the most babies named Dwane are California, Ohio and New York, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 117 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 106 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 72 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 46 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 43 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 39 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Kansas | 30 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 18 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Dwane 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 86,422 babies since 1880, Dwane is the third most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 109 babies recorded by SSA was a Dwane (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 Dwane
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 Dwane and names like it
- Compare Dwane and DwayneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDwane peaked in 1963.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dwane since 1910.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Dwane.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dwane alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.