Dawna

Where Dawna comes from

From Dawn + -a in the 20th century.
— Wiktionary's entry for Dawna
  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1919
    First appearance
    #4,251 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1966
    Peak, #579
    264 babies named Dawna — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1973
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,074.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English.
Namesakes

No widely known Dawna turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.