Dwanna
Dwanna was last recorded in 1996, when 5 babies were given it; 444 Americans have been recorded with it between 1936 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dwanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dwanna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,136, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1970, the peak
Dwanna peaked in 1970, when 27 girls were given it, #2,663 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | #14,136 | 2.9 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,119 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,671 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,922 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,345 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,041 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,440 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,643 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,583 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,275 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 8 | #7,668 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,454 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,024 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,849 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,120 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,278 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,784 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,240 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,204 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,142 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,292 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 27 | #2,663 | 15.4 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,503 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,795 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,625 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,791 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,277 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 24 | #2,553 | 12.7 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,337 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,329 | 7.6 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,824 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 11 | #3,977 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,100 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,268 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,758 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,852 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,360 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,787 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,022 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,789 | 2.7 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,752 | 5.1 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,538 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,706 | 19.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dwanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dwanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dwanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dwanna, and how old are they?
An estimated 382 Americans named Dwanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 47 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 388 people named Dwanna (387 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 400 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 8,627 babies since 1880, Dwanna is the fourth most given (5.1% 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 Dwanna
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 Dwanna and names like it
- Compare Dwanna and DawnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDwanna peaked in 1970.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dwanna since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Dwanna.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Dwanna alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.