Dawayne
Last seen for boys in 2024 at #9,894
- Peak · boys
- 1971 · 40 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,690since 1929
Dawayne over time
Rank among boys' names. Dawayne has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #6,620 | 12 |
| 2019 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #7,617 | 10 |
| 2017 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | #7,491 | 10 |
| 2014 | #6,307 | 13 |
| 2013 | #6,241 | 13 |
| 2012 | #4,390 | 22 |
| 2011 | #3,994 | 25 |
| 2010 | #4,241 | 23 |
| 2009 | #4,160 | 24 |
| 2008 | #4,044 | 25 |
| 2007 | #3,444 | 31 |
| 2006 | #3,602 | 28 |
| 2005 | #4,824 | 17 |
| 2004 | #3,860 | 23 |
| 2003 | #3,626 | 24 |
| 2002 | #4,188 | 19 |
| 2001 | #3,721 | 22 |
| 2000 | #3,922 | 20 |
| 1999 | #3,986 | 18 |
| 1998 | #4,650 | 14 |
| 1997 | #3,261 | 22 |
| 1996 | #2,299 | 35 |
| 1995 | #3,432 | 19 |
| 1994 | #2,618 | 28 |
| 1993 | #3,042 | 22 |
| 1992 | #1,955 | 41 |
| 1991 | #2,143 | 34 |
| 1990 | #2,373 | 29 |
| 1989 | #2,469 | 26 |
| 1988 | #1,879 | 35 |
| 1987 | #2,272 | 25 |
| 1986 | #2,429 | 22 |
| 1985 | #2,504 | 20 |
| 1984 | #1,656 | 35 |
| 1983 | #1,711 | 33 |
| 1982 | #1,700 | 34 |
| 1981 | #1,577 | 38 |
| 1980 | #1,765 | 32 |
| 1979 | #1,670 | 34 |
| 1978 | #1,474 | 40 |
| 1977 | #1,356 | 45 |
| 1976 | #1,427 | 39 |
| 1975 | #1,658 | 30 |
| 1974 | #1,747 | 27 |
| 1973 | #1,514 | 32 |
| 1972 | #1,418 | 36 |
| 1971 | #1,330 | 40 |
| 1970 | #1,494 | 32 |
| 1969 | #1,492 | 29 |
| 1968 | #1,962 | 17 |
| 1967 | #1,476 | 27 |
| 1966 | #1,510 | 26 |
| 1965 | #1,720 | 21 |
| 1964 | #1,850 | 19 |
| 1963 | #2,115 | 15 |
| 1962 | #2,035 | 16 |
| 1961 | #1,997 | 17 |
| 1960 | #1,973 | 17 |
| 1959 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1958 | #2,818 | 9 |
| 1957 | #2,822 | 9 |
| 1956 | #2,969 | 8 |
| 1955 | #3,201 | 7 |
| 1954 | #1,628 | 22 |
| 1953 | #3,798 | 5 |
| 1952 | #3,095 | 7 |
| 1951 | #3,714 | 5 |
| 1950 | #3,329 | 6 |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,316 | 6 |
| 1947 | #3,096 | 7 |
| 1946 | #3,173 | 6 |
| 1945 | — | |
| 1944 | #3,430 | 5 |
| 1943 | #3,231 | 6 |
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| 1939 | #3,480 | 5 |
| 1938 | #3,175 | 6 |
| 1937 | — | |
| 1936 | #2,854 | 7 |
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| 1929 | #3,959 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dawayne! It came in at #3,959, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1929–1935, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Dawayne is popular in 1977
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#660 · 1 in 14,837
Best ever in a state: #487 in Missouri, 1971.
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| Pennsylvania | #660 | 5 | 1 in 14,837 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Dawayne
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Debuted 1929
- Peaked 1971 at #1,330 (40 births)
- Births halved by 1985, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 36,516 boys born in 1977 were named Dawayne (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 246,127 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,330 in 1971, was only 1 in 44,211 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 21.0% of all boys named Dawayne (355) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #3,959 (1929) | #3,959 |
| 1930s | 18 | #2,854 (1936) | #3,170 |
| 1940s | 30 | #3,096 (1947) | #3,249 |
| 1950s | 92 | #1,628 (1954) | #2,957 |
| 1960s | 204 | #1,476 (1967) | #1,813 |
| 1970s | 355 | #1,330 (1971) | #1,509 |
| 1980s | 300 | #1,577 (1981) | #1,996 |
| 1990s | 262 | #1,955 (1992) | #2,976 |
| 2000s | 233 | #3,444 (2007) | #3,939 |
| 2010s | 145 | #3,994 (2011) | #6,453 |
| 2020s | 46 | #6,335 (2021) | #8,487 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dawayne in 1977
Top boys' names in 1977
More about 1977
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1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 36,516 of them was named Dawayne, which outranked 80.2% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,335Porfirio46
- #1,335Quincey46
- #1,335Wayland46
- #1,356Dawayne45
- #1,356Antone45
- #1,356Deshon45
- #1,356Glendon45
- #1,367Abelardo44
- #1,367Ammon44
- #1,367Augustus44
Tied with 10 names at #1,356; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.