Dwayn
Dwayn was last recorded in 1980, when 5 babies were given it; 72 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dwayn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dwayn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,529, in 1980; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1971, the peak
Dwayn peaked in 1971, when 10 boys were given it, #3,206 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 | #6,529 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,078 | 3.0 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,206 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,394 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,964 | 5.2 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,053 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,731 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,746 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,157 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,150 | 2.3 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 5 | #4,109 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dwayn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dwayn has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 11 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dwayn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dwayn, and how old are they?
An estimated 59 Americans named Dwayn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 164 people named Dwayn (3 women and girls, 161 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 63 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Dwayn rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Dwayn?
Dwayn is a less common spelling of Dwain: SSA has recorded 72 Dwayn and 7,581 Dwain since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 10,860 babies since 1880, Dwayn is the fifth most given (<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 Dwayn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Dwyane | 1,161 |
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 Dwayn and names like it
- Compare Dwayn and DwainBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDwayn peaked in 1971.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Dwayn.
- Names starting with DMost given first.