Dwayne
Dwayne was given to 109 boys in 2025, #1,565 among boys’ names; 77,200 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 63,000 Americans named Dwayne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 41 and 63.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dwayne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dwayne mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dwayne is “a male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Duane.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dwayne?
#1,565 among boys’ names, 2025
Dwayne fell from #791 in 2015 to #1,565 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.15 to 0.06 per 1,000.
3,505 babies in 1961, the peak
Dwayne peaked in 1961, when 3,505 babies were given it (3,486 boys, #111 among boys’ names). The 109 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 109 | #1,565 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 130 | #1,418 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 140 | #1,350 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 149 | #1,286 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 168 | #1,174 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 181 | #1,096 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 199 | #1,040 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 236 | #912 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 225 | #930 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 222 | #942 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 294 | #791 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 246 | #882 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 324 | #720 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 313 | #740 | 0.17 |
| 2011 | 321 | #713 | 0.17 |
| 2010 | 349 | #678 | 0.18 |
| 2009 | 347 | #694 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 347 | #690 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 360 | #666 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 389 | #613 | 0.19 |
| 2005 | 339 | #644 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 294 | #685 | 0.15 |
| 2003 | 343 | #609 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 323 | #615 | 0.17 |
| 2001 | 339 | #589 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 407 | #537 | 0.21 |
| 1999 | 364 | #551 | 0.19 |
| 1998 | 419 | #509 | 0.22 |
| 1997 | 418 | #498 | 0.22 |
| 1996 | 470 | #459 | 0.25 |
| 1995 | 507 | #449 | 0.27 |
| 1994 | 556 | #410 | 0.29 |
| 1993 | 590 | #389 | 0.30 |
| 1992 | 675 | #352 | 0.34 |
| 1991 | 779 | #322 | 0.39 |
| 1990 | 830 | #308 | 0.40 |
| 1989 | 870 | #284 | 0.43 |
| 1988 | 828 | #282 | 0.43 |
| 1987 | 802 | #275 | 0.43 |
| 1986 | 825 | #265 | 0.45 |
| 1985 | 880 | #257 | 0.48 |
| 1984 | 861 | #253 | 0.48 |
| 1983 | 955 | #235 | 0.53 |
| 1982 | 964 | #241 | 0.53 |
| 1981 | 1,010 | #232 | 0.56 |
| 1980 | 1,069 | #224 | 0.60 |
| 1979 | 1,168 | #203 | 0.68 |
| 1978 | 1,237 | #192 | 0.75 |
| 1977 | 1,460 | #163 | 0.89 |
| 1976 | 1,326 | #175 | 0.85 |
| 1975 | 1,248 | #181 | 0.80 |
| 1974 | 1,200 | #188 | 0.76 |
| 1973 | 1,435 | #167 | 0.92 |
| 1972 | 1,594 | #162 | 1.0 |
| 1971 | 1,826 | #157 | 1.0 |
| 1970 | 2,317 | #141 | 1.2 |
| 1969 | 2,113 | #144 | 1.2 |
| 1968 | 2,081 | #137 | 1.2 |
| 1967 | 2,157 | #136 | 1.2 |
| 1966 | 2,265 | #133 | 1.3 |
| 1965 | 2,521 | #126 | 1.4 |
| 1964 | 2,874 | #120 | 1.4 |
| 1963 | 3,136 | #115 | 1.5 |
| 1962 | 3,118 | #119 | 1.5 |
| 1961 | 3,486 | #111 | 1.6 |
| 1960 | 3,037 | #123 | 1.4 |
| 1959 | 1,905 | #165 | 0.89 |
| 1958 | 1,399 | #200 | 0.66 |
| 1957 | 1,036 | #239 | 0.48 |
| 1956 | 800 | #257 | 0.38 |
| 1955 | 588 | #299 | 0.29 |
| 1954 | 536 | #310 | 0.26 |
| 1953 | 480 | #320 | 0.24 |
| 1952 | 401 | #343 | 0.21 |
| 1951 | 391 | #345 | 0.21 |
| 1950 | 342 | #365 | 0.19 |
| 1949 | 362 | #354 | 0.20 |
| 1948 | 345 | #364 | 0.20 |
| 1947 | 390 | #346 | 0.21 |
| 1946 | 303 | #373 | 0.19 |
| 1945 | 248 | #377 | 0.18 |
| 1944 | 266 | #370 | 0.20 |
| 1943 | 196 | #452 | 0.14 |
| 1942 | 198 | #440 | 0.14 |
| 1941 | 204 | #411 | 0.17 |
| 1940 | 231 | #375 | 0.20 |
| 1939 | 213 | #386 | 0.19 |
| 1938 | 187 | #416 | 0.17 |
| 1937 | 201 | #389 | 0.19 |
| 1936 | 213 | #375 | 0.21 |
| 1935 | 191 | #395 | 0.18 |
| 1934 | 199 | #389 | 0.19 |
| 1933 | 166 | #427 | 0.17 |
| 1932 | 163 | #442 | 0.16 |
| 1931 | 147 | #467 | 0.14 |
| 1930 | 136 | #512 | 0.12 |
| 1929 | 104 | #592 | 0.10 |
| 1928 | 104 | #605 | 0.09 |
| 1927 | 90 | #678 | 0.08 |
| 1926 | 81 | #710 | 0.07 |
| 1925 | 81 | #717 | 0.07 |
| 1924 | 93 | #671 | 0.08 |
| 1923 | 66 | #835 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 59 | #909 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 58 | #924 | 0.05 |
| 1920 | 39 | #1,142 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,418 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 32 | #1,236 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,375 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,605 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 28 | #1,244 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,628 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,325 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,100 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dwayne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dwayne has been given almost only to boys: 462 girls in 114 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dwayne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dwayne, and how old are they?
63,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 77,200 Americans ever recorded as Dwayne. The median Dwayne alive today is 55 years old; half are between 41 and 63.
The 2020 Census counted 55,729 people named Dwayne (127 women and girls, 55,602 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 65,682 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 740 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 18,400 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 23,800 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,580 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,600 |
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 Dwayne born?
The states with the most babies named Dwayne are New York, California and Illinois, with 22% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 5,816 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 5,300 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 4,643 | #1,053 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 4,284 | #1,955 | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 4,027 | #612 | 2.6× |
| Ohio | 4,025 | #1,329 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 3,773 | #1,075 | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 3,736 | #869 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 3,266 | #1,153 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 2,569 | #1,003 | 1.5× |
Where Dwayne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dwayne is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1912 it was given 2.6 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 Dwayne 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, Dwayne is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 109 of their 109 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Dwayne
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 Dwayne and names like it
- Compare Dwayne and DwaineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDwayne peaked in 1961.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dwayne since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Dwayne: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Dwayne.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Dwayne alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.